Dealing with budget reality


1Malaysia book voucher will be entitle and be continue to University graduates student next year.

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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