THE main focus of Budget 2017 in terms of higher education is certainly the 19.2% reduction in public universities’ operating expenditure, from RM7.5 billion in 2016 to RM6.12 billion in 2017.
This has been the second reduction in a row: the operating expenditure in 2016 had been reduced by another 15% percent from the previous year.
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