KOTA KINABALU: Deputy Higher Education Minister Mustapha Sakmud has rejected the term “deficit” used in the Auditor-General’s report on public universities, clarifying that their financial struggles stem from insufficient government grants and limited self-generated income rather than actual losses.
“I do not agree with the word ‘deficit’ because universities are not businesses but educational institutions,” he said when met by reporters in Kota Kinabalu on Sunday (March 9).
