University autonomy to control thought?
A group of students yesterday staged a protest in front of the chancellery building in Universiti Malaya. Restricting intellectual and political freedom of students under the cover of university autonomy is a sad reflection of the mental makeup of the top management concerned. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Seth Akmal, December 14, 2019.
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 .
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