Budget for universities decrease in year 2015 - Malaysia

Budget 2015 

As we know , there are an issue about the budget for universities decrease in this year than last year.

The government cut University Budget 2015 about RM1.046 billion ( 12.36% ) from RM9.146 billion in 2014 to RM8.1 billion in 2015.  

Education is the best investment for a country's development . Why the higher education sector of the country had " robbed of their money ." Is this another fairly radical saving projects by the year 2015. ? Actually there are a few reasons why this happen and government took this way to reduce the budget for universities.  

List of Public Universities University Deducted Budget 2015 .

• Universiti Tun Hussein Onn ( UTHM ) - Cut 35.36 %
• Universiti Malaysia Kelantan ( UMK ) - Cut 35.08 %
• Universiti Teknologi Malaysia ( UTM ) - Cut 23.78 %
• National University of Malaysia ( UKM ) - Cut 17:34 %
• Universiti Malaysia Sarawak ( Cal Poly) - Cut 16:51 %
• Universiti Sains Malaysia ( USM ) - Cut 13.88 %
• Universiti Malaya ( UM ) - Cut 11.11%
• International Islamic University Malaysia ( IIUM ) - Cut a 19.17%
• Universiti Malaysia Perlis ( UNIMAP ) - Cut 13.62 %
• Universiti Utara Malaysia ( UUM ) - Cut of 9.33%
• Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia ( USIM ) - Cut 8:06 %
• Universiti Teknologi Mara ( UiTM ) - Cut to 2.55%

Actually, the budget for education is not decreasing but there are a divided between two which is  school and IPTA budget. The government  decrease the budget for IPTA but they increase the budget for school education. The budget for school education increase about 1 billion is from IPTA budget.Before this, the school and IPTA budget are combined but now its separated.