Teaching and Learning of TVET in Malaysia: Insights from Academic Staff

Abstract

Malaysia is ensuring that her workforce remains competitive in the global era. Therefore, the country is focussing on intensifying training programmes for her Human Resources. Thus, many government agencies are providing courses on skills and technology and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) has been given a greater emphasis in order to prepare Malaysians for the profession al world. As such, a lot of training programs are offered by training intuitions in order to achieve occupational competencies. This on-going study aims to obtain the views from academic staff teaching in a TVET university in Malaysia. For that purpose, a set of questionnaire containing 30 items were distributed to one hundred teaching staff in the university. Results showed respondents had a favourable view on the outlook of teaching and learning of TVET in Malaysia.