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JULY 17 — What makes a university the choice of aspiring students, parents and the larger public? It has surely to be one that is reputable university with high graduate employability? So what chances do emerging, young universities stand in this scenario where every parent would want to pack off their children to a highly ranked university and where reputation is the name of the game.
The Malaysian education enterprise has made several paradigms shifts to meet changing needs of societies, employers and the technological revolution. Needless to say, the Education Blueprint 2015-2025 speaks volumes on meeting the challenges of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. Does this also mean putting in place disruptive classrooms, high tech learning spaces and going digital at full force?
What is very clear is that our youngsters do not read as much as we did during our growing years. Vital skills are lost when youngsters ignore the ‘joys’ of reading and preferred to get hooked on anything that releases shots of dopamine. It was more fun taking to the Facebook and Twitter. When industries began to complain that universities were producing mismatched graduates, the Malaysian Qualifications Agency began to insist on including the industry in all university curriculum discussions. As we speak, co-curriculum remains the only set of subjects where student performance is measured specifically from the soft skills they demonstrated. Students perceived such subjects in the least positive way and the least of their priorities.
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