The Dawn of Higher Education in Malaysia

By Koay Su Lyn

February 2017 WINDOW INTO HISTORY
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They may appear solid today, but our schools had challenging beginningsCollege of Medicine buildingAccording to Alexander Carr-Saunders, the architect of colonial universities, there was “little sympathy with local aspirations for university education” before the Second World War.[1] While the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies (ACEC) once envisioned a system in which every colony would have elementary and secondary schools, as well as technical and vocational institutions up to the tertiary level by 1925, the idea of a university...

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Koay Su Lyn

reads and writes of the past to make sense of the present. She is a research analyst in the History and Heritage Programme of Penang Institute.


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