Integrity and anti-corruption course compulsory for students in higher learning institutions
KUALA LUMPUR: The integrity and
anti-corruption course will be compulsory for undergraduates who enrolled in
all public higher learning institutions after October this year.
The
subject would likely be compulsory for students from private higher learning
institutions starting January next year.
Malaysian
Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Community Education Division assistant
commissioner Mohd Nur Lokman Samingan (pic) said
the course structure would focus on experience-based learning to enable
students to better understand corruption and its impact on themselves and the
country.
He
said this came after the MACC’s Anti-Corruption Students Force, a programme for
promoting character building and integrity among tertiary students in 2016.
He
said following several pilot projects since 2018, the Higher Education Ministry
had agreed to make the course a compulsory subject for undergraduates in all 20
public universities beginning in 2023.
“The
course was taught by the university’s lecturers and MACC’s officers.
“When
the course was taught at some institutions, we noticed that it was well
received by students like it was something they had been waiting for.
“The experience-based learning was what
made the subject interesting and eye-opening to them,” he said when met at the
International Anti-Corruption Day 2023 at the Asia Pacific University (APU)
here on Saturday (Dec 9).
Also
present was the MACC deputy chief commissioner (prevention) Datuk Seri Norazlan
Mohd Razali, APU chief executive officer Datuk Parmjit Singh, Malaysian
Association of Private Colleges and Universities executive director Devan G.
Nagappan, MACC Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel member Datin Yasmin
Ahmad Merican.
Sumber: The
Star
