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Bigger cuts for varsities
Published on: Sunday, October 23, 2016
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Kuala Lumpur: Public universities will see their combined operating budgets for 2017 slashed by about 19 per cent, or RM1.5 billion, a bigger cut than this year's budget.Out of the 20 public universities in Malaysia, 10 of them will be facing massive cuts ranging from over 10 per cent to over 31 per cent including many top-ranking institutions under Budget 2017 announced.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) suffers the biggest reduction in operating expenditure in terms of percentage with a 31.16 per cent drop from 2016 allocations, but Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) will be losing the most in terms of value with RM563 million wiped out from its operating budget.

Five other universities in the list are expected to have more marginal cuts of between RM93,500 (-0.06 per cent) to RM10.56 million (-4.74 per cent), while the remaining five will have marginal increases in the operating budget of between RM3.83 million (1.88 per cent) and RM13.61 million (8.85 per cent).

Taken as a whole, the budget for 20 universities' combined operating expenditure in 2017 will be RM6.12 billion, which is a cut of RM1.46 billion or 19.23 per cent from the allocation of RM7.57 billion in 2016.




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