The course coordinator, Fazilah Idris, said the elective course was being offered from this year by the UKM Citra Centre with the cooperation of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.

“So far, we are the only university that offers such a course to our undergraduates as we realise that it is important to develop early awareness among the students,” she said.

“The MACC officers are also involved as educators.”

A former magistrate, Mohd Firdaus Ramlan, who once served a three-year jail sentence on a corruption charge, conducted a talk at the university today.

He shared his experience of being in prison with the hope that it would act as a warning and deterrent to others.

Firdaus, 36, was jailed in 2012 and released in 2014, and is now active in anti-corruption activities and giving talks especially to students and staff at various institutions and government agencies nationwide.

”I have to do this because I don’t want my children and the next generation to commit the same offence,” he said.