NOV 10 — I had the privilege of attending a lecture by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University at Universiti Malaya in early January this year. His candid critique of...
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We cannot allow academic freedom – a cornerstone of the intellectual tradition – to be so easily stifled. Academic freedom must be preserved, defended, and enshrined in law. As public servants paid with taxpayers’ money, the views of academics should be publicly accessible to the people. Academics do not merely engage in idle chatter; they share research findings funded by public grants, using validated research instruments to critique and improve existing systems.
Returning to Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ lecture, our nation will not be able to produce scholars of his calibre if the mouths and hands of our academics are tied by restrictive laws and regulations.
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