Recently the Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin confirmed that subsidies for local students studying at public universities would remain intact, despite the huge disparity with the cost of tuition in private institutions of higher learning. How do public universities sustainably fund the cost of providing higher education, and what are the trade-offs of receiving significant government funds to institutional autonomy? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks to Dr Wan Chang Da, CEO of The Head Foundation, and former Director of the National Higher Education Research Institute, USM.