Universiti Malaya (UM) should publicise the curriculum vitae (CV) of their lecturers who are promoted and the reasons for their promotions should also be made known, urged the university's economics lecturer Dr Edmund Terence Gomez.

Gomez, who is also UM Academic Staff Association vice-president, said the association has repeatedly requested for the curriculum vitae of the lecturers promoted - to associate professor or professor - to be published to promote transparency and avoid irregularities in the promotion exercise.

He said that this move will also avoid allegations of favouritism among those in authority.

The CVs, among others, will also contain information of the academics' previous research projects and published works.

"The management has told us that they will not publish the curriculum vitae. The reason is, and this has been publicly stated is that it is a confidential document. They feel that it is improper to ask the lecturers to publish their curriculum vitae," he said in an exclusive interview with malaysiakini recently.

However, he claimed that this is not the usual practice in other major universities overseas. According to Gomez, the curriculum vitae is made public and the promotion board will highlight the reason why the promotion takes place.

His first part of the interview , in which he spoke about favouritism in academic promotions, monitoring of the internal e-mail system and tampering with examination marks in UM, was published yesterday.

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On prospects for promotion, the academic said that the lecturers' prospects of promotion will be hampered if they speak up on issues concerning the university.

Gomez, an associate professor of political economy at UM's Faculty of Economics and Administration was forced to tender his resignation on May 8, after the university management rejected his application for leave in order to take up a secondment.

He will leave for Geneva today to report for duty on the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development to lead a research project for two years.

Following a public outcry and calls for the decision to be reconsidered, the government overruled the university management decision last Friday and approved Gomez's unpaid leave and revoked his resignation.

Yesterday, Gomez met Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi where he was told to speak out on all matters .

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