A thing or two that varsities must learn to do

THE Year of the Rooster is just around the corner. Perhaps, this should serve as a cue for us to slay the tricky chicken-and-egg situations that trouble us and impede our progress.

That surely applies to our public universities. Last week, using Universiti Malaya as the prime example, Sunday Star highlighted how shrinking government allocations have made it more difficult to operate these universities.