Malaysia to scrap 55-year-old university law, but will campus reform follow?

Malaysia may finally scrap the university law that generations of students have blamed for stifling campus dissent, but activists and academics say the harder fight will be over what comes next.Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has promised to abolish the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971, better known by its Malay acronym AUKU, a law that has long sat at the centre of arguments over how much freedom Malaysian students should have to protest, organise and challenge university authorities.Anwar announced on Friday that his government would repeal the 55-year-old law, a significant reversal from the administration’s position only months earlier that AUKU should be retained and improved rather than abolished.