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V. Foreign Higher Education and Education Systems, International Relations, Bilateral Relations
B. Essays, Commentaries, Statements
Author AZMAN, Norzaini (SIRAT, Morshidi Bin; AHMAD, Abdul Razak)
Title Higher education, learning regions and the Malaysian transformation policies / Norzaini Azman, Morshidi Sirat and Abdul Razak Ahmad
Publication year 2014
Source/Footnote In: Higher education policy. - 27 (2014) 3, S. 301 - 321
Inventory number 36750
Keywords Ausland : Malaysia : Hochschulwesen allgemein ; Hochschule und Region
Abstract The process of globalisation has undoubtedly impacted countries, bringing about different challenges for each country, region and locality. Many countries have responded positively to the demands and challenges through a societal transformation process with an emphasis on developing tertiary education, research and innovative capacities. Drawing upon our experience with two cases of newly developed learning regions, Kuala Lumpur city-region and Iskandar Malaysia region, we examine Malaysia?s effort at transforming its higher education system in the context of learning region objectives. Key government policies, namely, the Tenth Malaysia Plan, the National Higher Education Strategic Plan 2007?2020, the Economic Transformation Programme as well as documents of the learning regions? master plans were included in the document analysis. Although it remains to be seen how the learning regions will emerge, the experience in transforming higher education based on the learning region concept is highly relevant to developing countries that are attempting to shift their traditional economy to a more knowledge-intensive economy. (HRK / Abstract übernommen)