University autonomy to control thought?


Mustafa K. Anuar

UNIVERSITI Malaya student leaders recently accused the university administration of abusing its acquired autonomy to restrict intellectual freedom, which apparently is also the case of a few other public universities in the supposedly new Malaysia.

Freedom, as rightly pointed out by these students, is indeed a double-edged sword as exemplified by the alleged abuse of university autonomy by top management, particularly the students’ affairs department (HEP).


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