Friday, August 01, 2008

More updates on UUCA 'revisions'

More reports from the Star on the 'revisions' to the UUCA can be found here, here and here. These amendments are pretty much useless, in my view, since the activities of university students will still be monitored closely by the university authorities and they are still not allowed to participate in political activities. Just look at the recent treatment of three UM students for distributing leaflets about Anwar. The only pseudo bright spot was Koh Tsu Koon's proposal to redefine students to exclude post docs and those doing off campus programs. But this doesn't go far enough. What we need is for the restriction against students joining political parties to be abolished.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i wish your blog can discuss notions on how to improve the current education system more frequently. then again, i guess that won't be as spicy what your interest portrays.