The Dawn of Higher Education in Malaysia
By Koay Su Lyn
February 2017 WINDOW INTO HISTORY
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...
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.
