Don’t patronise our students


JUMPING on the TikTok bandwagon may sound cool to some people but it’s totally strange coming from the Higher Education Ministry. The idea of cosseting our “bored and homesick” university students who have to remain on campus during the movement control order (MCO) period with a competition on video-sharing platform TikTok is simply patronising them. Our higher education students are more capable than that.

As an academic, I feel that this kind of “encouragement” is truly unnecessary in an academic setting. And I have good reason to believe that Makcik Kiah, who has a daughter staying at a local campus, would agree with me too.

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