This qualitative inquiry aims at identifying the main issues in Malaysian higher education (HE) system and its sectors from the perspectives of Malaysian academic leaders. For this purpose, four open-ended questions were distributed among 2,786 academic leaders in 25 universities. More than 235 completed questionnaires were collected, containing nearly 4,500 records of priorities, values, challenges, and solutions. Through a quantitative content analysis approach, the records were categorized using the software package ATLAS.ti 7. This resulted to the emergence of 112 categories. Using SPSS 23, the top five categories with maximum frequencies of records were focused for further evaluation. The comparison of the issues in Malaysian HE and its sectors revealed that some of issues were common in all the sectors. In addition, the examination of these categories of data did result to the classification of them into five major categories namely Academic Core Activities,

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The purpose of this study is to identify the management of ICT (Information Communication Technology) in English teaching in primary schools in Wei Nan city, China. This study used a survey questionnaire on the role of ICT in primary English teaching and learning. The data obtained from the study for answering the research questions also exploring the outcomes of the use of ICT in primary English programmesr and the current challenges in exercising the use of ICT in Education. The results showed that the use of computers makes classes more vivid, motivation and effective to students.

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This study was an attempt to highlight the role of capabilities and competencies in determining leadership performance in Malaysian Public Research & Comprehensive Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The previously developed capabilities, competencies, and leadership performance scales in Malaysian academic context were used to collect data from leaders in 6 Public Research and Comprehensive HEIs. In total, 196 completed surveys were collected and the data were screened. SmartPLS 3 was used to analyze the data and the results were extended using Finite Mixture Segmentation Partial Least Squares (FIMIX-PLS) and ImportancePerformance Map Analysis (IPMA). The outcome of FIMIX-PLS implied the existence of two models namely University-Faculty Level Leaders and Department-Individual Professorial Level Leaders models. Additionally, the results of IPMA showed that generic competency and change-oriented capability were the main areas of improvement to be addressed by management activities on the basis of University-Faculty Level Leaders and Department-Individual Professorial Level Leaders models, respectively.