Public Universities and Budget Cuts in Malaysia

Abdullah, Doria

doi:10.6017/ihe.2017.91.10054

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“…However, the age group 26+ (M = 3.25, SD = 0.95) did not significantly differ from other age groups. It seems that younger respondents (18)(19)(20)(21)(22) were less concerned about the impact of lockdown on their financial statuses compared to those in age group 23-25, who were the most concerned. However, the eldest group 26+ showed the least concern about the financial impact of lockdown.…”

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Understanding Education Difficulty During COVID-19 Lockdown: Reports on Malaysian University Students’ Experience

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The COVID-19 pandemic has struck the world and forced countries to go into lockdown including education sector. Students have been staying in hostels or houses, unable to go to university campuses. This situation has left university administrators no choice, but to have an online learning channel. Malaysian universities in particular have gone through many challenges to bring their online learning system up and ready to resume education process. However, students have found themselves caught in this situation (pure online learning) with no plan or readiness. Literature reviews showed that students encountered some challenges that could not be easily resolved. This study explored the challenges encountered by students of a government-linked university. This university is one of the largest in Malaysia with over 10 campuses across the country. This study collected 284 valid answers. The findings show that respondents lacked full readiness in this situation physically, environmentally, and psychologically with some differences in perspectives according to their gender, age, and residing state. Respondents were concerned about the implications of lockdown on their performance. The findings of this study indicate that a sudden switch to a pure online alternative creates considerable challenges to students who have no plans to be physically apart from classes. The findings also indicate that the current blended learning process which uses online learning as a support mechanism for face-to-face learning has faced a considerable challenge to replace it, particularly with unprepared students. INDEX TERMS COVID-19 epidemic, country lockdown, online learning, Malaysia This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.

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“…Islamic endowment (waqf), endowment, zakah, and donations have been the sources of Malaysian universities fund and they remain significant. Universities are encouraged to increase contributions from the public through these channels during the budget cut (Abdullah, 2017;Hasbullah & Ab Rahman, 2021). Unfortunately, crowdfunding has never been mentioned as part of the mechanisms.…”

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From Government Funding to Crowdfunding: Identifying Approaches and Models for Universities

Alma’amun¹,

Kamarudin²,

Rozali³

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Malaysian public universities are bracing for funding cuts and moving towards autonomous status causing them to be more innovative in generating income. Crowdfunding has been part of the solutions. Unfortunately, the emerging of university crowdfunding platforms in Malaysia is relatively slow as compared to the universities in the U.K. and U.S. This study aims to explore approaches and crowdfunding models used by the universities. This study highlights different approaches used by the universities in incorporating crowdfunding into their funding strategies, which can be differentiated into two main groups, namely setting up a university-operated crowdfunding platform and using existing third-party platforms. The investigation on the Skolafund crowdfunding shows that it could be an example of which the crowdfunding model fits Malaysian universities. The findings in this paper can help the universities to ease the burden due to the budget cut impact by utilising crowdfunding.

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“…The scheme salary package has been carried out by their university's management as an effort to strengthen the university's financial return to be on a solid ground following the government's cuts. Doria Abdullah (2017) mentioned that before the budget cuts, public universities were in a comfortable financial situation, with no pressure to generate income through their core function. The reduced funding has necessitated swift changes across all functions.…”

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“…Next, the institutions cut down on international faculty recruitment, academic staff mobility, and infrastructure development. Doria Abdullah (2017) also stated that due to the reduced fundings, universities have to find ways to generate their own income such as rentals and leasing of on-campus assets, increasing public consultancy services, and a push for commercialisation of R&D together with industrial sectors. Funding for Malaysian public universities is undergoing structural and strategic changes.…”

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UPNM Way Forward: A Proposal of Cost Saving Strategy to Strengthen UPNM Financial Through Saving Plan Package

Zainol

2021

MJSSH

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This study aims to determine and propose appropriate recommendation to the top management of university on how to generate income through saving plan that can be implement by Human Resource Department at UPNM to strengthen the financial issue. This proposal is proposed to assist management team on how to rationalize limited financial issues that can affect financial crisis faced by the university nowadays. At present, all public universities in Malaysia faced a critical challenge due to insufficient financial budget allocation, where the Government's financial allocation is increasingly bubbling. All Universities have been urged to generate their own internal income aside from budget allocation to ensure that the dependency on the Government can be reduce. Hence, some of these significant arrangement need to be carefully strategize and plan by the management of university to generate extra revenue as an effort to encounter financial issues faced by the university. From this case study, the finding can be used to identify and assist Top management of university to overcome issues on revenue generating to support financial operation cost at UPNM.

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Public Universities and Budget Cuts in Malaysia

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Understanding Education Difficulty During COVID-19 Lockdown: Reports on Malaysian University Students’ Experience

Understanding Education Difficulty During COVID-19 Lockdown: Reports on Malaysian University Students’ Experience

From Government Funding to Crowdfunding: Identifying Approaches and Models for Universities

UPNM Way Forward: A Proposal of Cost Saving Strategy to Strengthen UPNM Financial Through Saving Plan Package

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