Campus elections now in the hands of student bodies

PETALING JAYA: Procedures for campus elections are to be revised to ensure the elections would be carried out in a transparent and independent manner by Student Representative Councils (MPP), without interference from their university’s management and authority.

A meeting between the Education Ministry’s Department of Higher Education, Student Affairs Office and law officers of public universities – chaired by the ministry’s Department of Higher Education director-general Datin Dr Siti Hamisah Tapsir – concluded that giving MPPs the freedom to carry out their respective campus elections would empower students to choose a right leader who would champion their rights and aspirations.