Appoint non-Malays as university vice-chancellors

IT is rather rare that the posts of as many as five vice-chancellors of public universities are vacant at any one time, as is the situation now.

Let me just go straight to the point. This is a very opportune moment for the government, more specifically the Higher Education Minister, to take the historic step of appointing non-Malay professors as vice-chancellors of some of these five universities.