Aspirasi Akademik Malaysia

To the new government of Malaysia after GE14:

GERAK’S HOPES AND ASPIRATIONS FOR MALAYSIAN ACADEMIA

•Academic Freedom

–Freedom from political interference – greater autonomy at tertiary level – eg., appointments

–Universities should never be factories

•Raising of academic standards at all levels

–Meritocracy to replace kulitocracy

•Restructuring of the education system

–Replace rote learning with creative pedagogy

–Emphasise `WHY’ instead of `HOW’

•Equal opportunity and access to all stages of education

–Removal of any discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, wealth, age

GERAK’S HOPES FOR THE NATION

•A more mature and understanding people

–Which requires a liberating education system, not one that constrains and is conformist

•The restoration of democracy and the righting of wrongs

–Replacing a flawed democracy with one that is based on justice and honour

–Perpetrators of heinous crimes against the nation must be brought to justice

•Restoration of the independence of institutions

–Judiciary, law and order agencies (police, AG chambers), banking

•Genuine multiculturalism

–Based on mutual respect (ethnic, gender, wealth, geography, for eg.), not based on silly slogans like `1Malaysia’ and `Malaysia Truly Asia’

–They are silly and inane not because of what they could really mean, but because of the hypocrisy of the people who devised them.

Submitted by

Pergerakan Tenaga Akademik Malaysia (GERAK)

to

Forum Aspirasi Rakyat

Persatuan Patriot Kebangsaan

MIECC, The Mines, Balakong

6 May 2018