Students Speaking Up!

It's encouraging to know that our students are speaking up and learning to question. They did it at the right time to the right person - our Prime Minister. Some of the questions,which Pak Lah could not answer were as follows. Of course, Pak Lah had to rush off to attend some wedding immediately after that (so much to listening to our students).

• In achieving 2020, are we on schedule?

• I wish to join the civil service, but the civil service doesn’t seem to be colour blind. What will be done to redeem the image of the civil service?

• Will there be more public debates between the cabinet members and the opposition on government policies?

• What is the role of the government in holistic development?

• You have called yourself colour blind, but what is your view on our quota system? It is still more racial rather than community- based. Secondly, what is your views on protecting minorities rather than majorities?

• I want to know how do you feel about promises that you have not kept. I don’t want to know what you’re going to do, but I want to know how you feel, towards us, the people you are responsible for.

Many of the questions were met with loud applause from the floor and often drew smiles from Abdullah along with Education Minister Hishammuddin Hussein who was seated next to him.

Read more here, here and here. Anyway, the UUCA is just given cosmetic changes.More here and here.

When will undergraduates be given the respect they deserve?