COMMENT | Our apartheid academy, UiTM

COMMENT | What is UiTM? Is it Universiti Teknologi Mara? Or should it be renamed as Universiti Tempat Melayu?

I had Malay colleagues who studied at UiTM when working at The Star newspaper. We got along just fine.

One fellow went on to work for the DAP. Another told me he preferred to stay in a Chinese area to avoid nosy neighbours reporting on him bringing his girlfriend home.

However, students there recently wore black to protest very few non-Malays being admitted into a small UiTM post-graduate programme for cardiothoracic surgery.

It was to address the “acute shortage” of such specialists, as Malaysian Medical Association president Dr Azizan Abdul Aziz pointed out...