The proposed One Higher Education Act will give academics a distinct legal status to protect academic freedom and strengthen university autonomy.
KUALA LUMPUR: The proposed One Higher Education Act (OHEA), which is being drafted to replace the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (Act 30), will provide a specific legal status to protect academic freedom and strengthen university autonomy in administrative and operational matters.
Deputy Higher Education Minister Adam Adli Abd Halim said the protection was intended to ensure that the role of academics was not confined to the basic employer-employee relationship, but was accorded due recognition under the country’s new higher education legal framework.
