Thursday, April 10, 2014

Start behaving like world class universities, Ambiga tells local universities





Ambiga got it all wrong. University College London (UCL), the third oldest university and the third best in UK, after Oxford and Cambridge has banned two muslim speakers, Hamza Tzortzis and Abdul Raheem Green, because of their views on gender segregation and homosexuality.


Far right groups in the UK, the English Defense League (EDL) and the British National Party (BNP) are also banned in UK universities. So to be world class, can local universities also invite far-right groups such as Perkasa to their own compounds? Would Ambiga agree that far-right groups like Perkasa allowed to speak in local universities?

What the local universities should do is to invite collaborations with top universities, and invite Nobel Laureates for collaborations and joint research supervisions, to nurture the brightest future Nobel Laureates. Simply inviting people like Ambiga to talk in local universities will not turn them into world class institutes.

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