Tracking the Pathways of Education in Malaysia: Roots and Routes

Liu, Ong Puay; Selvadurai, Sivapalan; Saibeh, Badariah; Radzi, Marsitah Mohd; Hamzah, Shazlin Amir; Hoon, Ong Puay

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“…A committee report on education proposed that vernacular schools were allowed to be continued under a common curriculum for all schools in 1956. In addition, the Razak Report has mandated Malay as a compulsory subject in primary schools (Liu et al, 2013). Razak Report 1956 supported a unified education system that uses a national curriculum to promote national unity (Puteh, 2010).…”

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“…Some of the recommendations made include the abolishment of school fees at primary level education, the use of the Malay language as the main medium of instruction, and an automatic progression to Form 3 as an effort to increase the length of years of education. In addition, the report also emphasized on school curriculum which focuses on acquiring 3Rs (reading, writing, and arithmetic) through primary education (Liu et al, 2013).…”

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Challenges of COVID-19 Crisis on Malaysia’s Education Sector

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This paper aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the development of Malaysia’s education policies over the years. In addition, this study seeks to further draw attention to the recent implications of COVID-19 on Malaysia’s education sector. The education policies developed in the past decades have highlighted that Malaysia Government had continuously shown tremendous support and has put high emphasis on the education sector. However, the pandemic crisis has disrupted learning and posed new challenges to the education system and the policies developed in the past. Therefore, this paper will employ a narrative review to draw lessons based on the observations retrieved from existing literature and various secondary sources such as policy briefs, media, commentaries, and documentaries of related evidence on the challenges of the pandemic crisis to the education system and its policy. In addition, the review will also shed light on the policies' recommendations in adapting to the new normal and establishing this as a new research direction for future studies.

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Challenges of COVID-19 Crisis on Malaysia’s Education Sector

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Consociational politics as a mediating effect in strengthening ethnic unity among youth in Malaysian public universities

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This study analyses the role of consociational politics as a mediating effect in enhancing ethnic unity among youth in Malaysia, with reference to the university students, through educational policy, economic system and religious practice. The research focuses on ethnicity due to its persistent influence on election outcomes over the previous two decades. Besides, a significant number of voters choose to base their political choices on the party that resonate with their ethnic interests. For this study, it involved a survey of 373 students from two Malaysian public universities, namely University of Malaya and the National Defence University of Malaysia. The obtained data are subjected to descriptive analysis as well as structural equation modelling (SEM) analysis. The results indicate that all three domains are significant in strengthening ethnic unity among youth, and this finding has national significance since it demonstrates the efficacy of this strategy in safeguarding Malaysia's diverse population The study's findings demonstrate that the grand coalition, as a fundamental component of consociational politics, possesses the capacity to cultivate a political alliance comprising many ethnic groupings, ultimately earning the confidence of the broader populace, particularly the younger generation. This facilitates the ascendance of a politically diverse party with individuals from various ethnic backgrounds to take over governance of the nation. Hence, the successful promotion of racial peace among the youth in Malaysia can be attributed to the implementation of a consociational strategy within the country.

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Relationship among Level of Participation of Diversity Engagement Activities, Perceived Campus Climate, Meaningful Interaction and Sense of Civic Responsibility of Undergraduate Students in Malaysia

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Procedings of the 1st ICA Regional Conference, ICA 2019, October 16-17 2019, Bali, Indonesia

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Twenty-first century is an increasingly diverse society and interdependent global community. Due to changing demographics in higher education and increasing demands of the educative value of diversity in need, "twenty-first-century college student diversity outcomes" is a term used to describe the skills necessary for college graduates to function in the diverse world. This study is to examine the relationship between the level of participation in curricular diversity engagement activity, co-curricular diversity engagement activity, level of campus climate, and level of participation in meaningful interaction with a sense of civic responsibility. It also tested the level of meaningful interaction as a moderator between the relationship of level of participation in curricular, co-curricular and civic responsibility among students. This study was adopting purposive sampling, 1.420 respondents of different ethnicities at six Malaysia universities involved. Survey through selfadministered questionnaires was used in this study. Social Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) and Structured Equation Modelling (SEM) with Partial Least Squares (PLS) used for analysis. The findings provided useful information to better understanding regarding the level of participation of students in diversity engagement activity and their sense of civic responsibility. This findings also could be used by the university to enhanced curricular and cocurricular diversity engagement activity and campus climate that support diversity.

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Tracking the Pathways of Education in Malaysia: Roots and Routes

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Challenges of COVID-19 Crisis on Malaysia’s Education Sector

Challenges of COVID-19 Crisis on Malaysia’s Education Sector

Consociational politics as a mediating effect in strengthening ethnic unity among youth in Malaysian public universities

Relationship among Level of Participation of Diversity Engagement Activities, Perceived Campus Climate, Meaningful Interaction and Sense of Civic Responsibility of Undergraduate Students in Malaysia

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