15th General Election, HEYA is advocating for Higher Education Reform to be included in respective political parties manifesto to enable a robust higher education system and seamless youth development for Malaysia. For this purpose, HEYA had a courtesy call to YB Fahmi Fadzil and advocated the AUKU Reform Blueprint to Parti Keadilan Rakyat and Pakatan Harapan that carried the following reform agenda: Politically Free Governance System (1) To enable independent, inclusive and professional university governance (2) To restrict ministerial power and interference in university governance and operation (human resource management, academic and students affairs typically) (3) To Enable all university stakeholders participation in the board to ensure balance of composition (4) To create transparent accountable matrix within university governance and operation Academic Freedom (1) To enable transparent, professional and academic orientated in executive management appointment (2) To revitalize university senate as the primary academic regulating body (3) To introduce democratic element in interim management appointment with academic staff involvement Student Autonomy (1) To liberalize student in a non- partisan academic ecosystem (2) To enable independent, student driven welfare management system through student union (SU) (3) To create a strong student parliamentary system to ensure wide spectrum of students involvement (Refer this link for the full write up of HEYA Higher Education Reform Blueprint https://bit.ly/heyaukureform) The survey on issue pertaining rising living cost, employability and mental health issue faced by students in tertiary education, done by HEYA, was also discussed with YB Fahmi Fadzil Moving forward, we are also scheduled to meet representative from other political party to advocate for the inclusion of Higher Education Reform in their respective party / political coalition GE manifesto.