Fundraising for GERAK: The Malaysia Day Show Live At Merdekarya
Come celebrate Malaysia Day at Merdekarya and help raise funds for GERAK (Pergerakan Tenaga Akademik Malaysia). The night features a music- and fun-filled night with 4 acts – AYOP, The Panda Head Curry?, Lab The Rat, and Sindrom Anak Kedua. Live music starts at 8.30pm while Merdekarya’s doors (upstairs) open to the public at 8pm.…
GERAK’s Response to Higher Education Minister’s Statement on Hybrid Education
GERAK is deeply concerned with recent reports of the higher education minister’s intention to introduce hybrid and flexible learning systems and reduce the duration of selected programs in our public universities, beginning with nine such universities.We are troubled because the proposals are not the kind of interventions that should be forced down upon universities without…
GERAK opinion on Nakba 2023: The Right Side of History
May 15, 2023, marks 75 years since the “Nakba”, or the catastrophe – the establishment of the state of Israel in the region of Palestine in what was formerly widely known as the Arab world. The Nakba involved the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians as the news began to filter through that some…
Mengapa AUKU perlu dibubarkan: Menjawab hujah2 Menteri Pendidikan Tinggi yang enggan membubarkan AUKU atau mengapa AUKU perlu dibubarkan
by Wan Abdul Manan Wan Muda Pengumuman Menteri Pendidikan Tinggi di Parlimen yang tidak bercadang untuk membubarkan Akta Universiti dan Kolej Universiti (AUKU) 1971 (UU) sangat mengecewakan dalam dua perkara. Pertama, perkara ini mengingkari janji Menteri baru-baru ini untuk memulihkan kepercayaan terhadap sistem pendidikan tinggi. Pernyataan yang begitu muktamad bahwa AUKU tidak akan dibubar tanpa…
Agenda reformasi dan pembangunan pengajian tinggi di Malaysia
Menjelang PRU15, GERAK berdiri teguh di belakang Pakatan Harapan (PH) sebagai gabungan pilihan untuk memimpin Malaysia keluar daripada pelbagai krisis yang dihadapinya, terutama krisis yang dihadapi oleh pendidikan tinggi Malaysia. Mengapa menyokong PH? Secara ringkasnya, kerana ia adalah satu-satunya gabungan dalam sejarah kewujudan GERAK (yang telah wujud hampir 30 tahun), yang menghubungi kami serta pertubuhan…
An agenda for the reform and development of higher education in Malaysia
On the eve of GE15, GERAK stands firmly behind Pakatan Harapan (PH) as the coalition of choice to lead Malaysia out of the multiple crises it finds itself in, including the crisis confronting Malaysian higher education. But why PH? Quite simply, because it is the only coalition in the history of GERAK’s existence – and…
GERAK Statement on fresh graduates lacking passion
We refer to the comments made by the speaker from the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM) during a forum on the 2022 National Education and Learning Summit held on 31 March (“Fresh grads lack passion to progress in career, forum told”. Free Malaysia Today, 31 March 2022) According to the speaker, many fresh Malaysian graduates lack…
About AUKU* Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (Act 30)
What is the purpose of the Act? i. The Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (the Act), widely known as (the dreaded) AUKU, also as UUCA or as Act 30, is a general legislation for the establishment of government supported universities. It is a template legislation that sets out the procedures for the establishment of…
GERAK Webinar: Academics’ & students’ struggles under the dark cloud of UUCA/AUKU
[ENGLISH VERSION BELOW] Selama kira-kira dua tahun dari tahun 2018 hingga 2020 satu kajian telah dibuat bagi menyemak semula Akta Universiti dan Kolej Universiti 1971 (AUKU) yang dianggap sebagai satu undang-undang yang drakonian. Tujuan kajian adalah untuk menggantikanya dengan satu undang-undang baru yang lebih progresif. Malangnya perkembangan ini telah terbantut ekoran Sheraton Move pada awal…
GERAK statement on the crisis of leadership in Malaysian Higher Education
It is now about 18 months since this regime came to power through the backdoor and formed a new, bloated, yet generally-ineffective, Cabinet. We in GERAK, like many others, have been following closely the many missteps and overall incompetency of this Cabinet. Like these others, we are alarmed and concerned about the implications of these…
