Our friends from Universiti Utara Malaysia Roslam Hakim, Professor of Economics Head of Sustainability and Community Development and Azian Yaya remind us that the purpose of Higher Education (is not self fulfilment or a another degree/feather in the cap) but to improve the common good and poverty alleviation. This is quite straight forward and simple goal.
What is education without action? It should be educ ACTION. Learning is nothing without ACTION
This is the same dilemna that caught Prof Mohamad Yunus when he initially taught developmental economics at U of Chitagoong at Bangladesh. He asked himself on the value of his teaching if poverty lurks at the gates/around the university. So he asked his students to go out and find out what he can do.
So what did they do: 1. women in social enterprise (WISE) 2 cooperative for students 3. University for SME
