This conceptual paper discusses the relationship between self-regulated learning, satisfaction towards personal record building, and employability skills. There is a mismatch of employability skills between the demand of industry and the supply by higher learning institutions. Literature shows that soft skills are emerging as important as technical skills among TVET graduates in the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0. The Personal Record Building (PRB) system was initiated by a technical university to assist in the development of these soft skills. Centralising students' Self-regulated learning (SRL), PRB is an initiative to capture students' participation and achievement in both academic and non-academic activities through a systematic merit. While many researchers have investigated issues concerning employability skills, little is known about the significance of SRL and the role of PRB towards the development of students' employability skills. The objective of this concept paper is to propose an area of investigation on the relationship between SRL and employability skills mediated by satisfaction towards PRB. Various employability skills frameworks, Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) and Learners' satisfaction survey were referred to in the attempt to explore the potential relationships among the variables. It is anticipated that the data obtained could be presented in the form of descriptive analysis and inferential analysis using PSL-SEM 3.0. All in all, the conceptual paper hopes to highlight the potential significant findings which could later assist higher learning institutions to improve the utilization of PRB as an initiative to develop employability skills.

The aim of this paper is to design and validate a survey instrument known as Soft-Employability Skills Kit (SES-KIT) and to assess its reliability among Technical and Vocation Education Training (TVET) students. Through literature review, soft skills are found to be essential factors in employability among TVET graduates. The development of a contemporary instrument to measure students' soft skills is necessary to promote awareness of the latest employability skills frameworks. SES-KIT was derived based on a mapping of eight employability skills frameworks and the top ten skills in the 21st century skills (World Economic Forum, 2020). Thirty-nine respondents from a TVET institution were included in this pilot study to measure reliability value and five experts were appointed to validate face and content validity. SES-KIT obtained a high reliability score of Cronbach alpha 0.961 and a good scale content validity index (S-CVI/Ave) value of 0.91. The next step of the research is to test this instrument to a larger scale of respondents.

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This paper examines about the lesson learned of persecuted Rohingya people in Myanmar. The Myanmar regime does not recognize the Rohingyas as their people and accused them as Bengalis from Bangladesh. The issue of denied citizenship has caused the Rohingya people to live in limbo. Unlike other ethnics in Myanmar, they are denied the rights as sovereign citizens. The situation becomes worse when the other local citizens, for the reason of ethnic and religion matters, join forces with the regime in violating and abusing the Rohingyas. Therefore, the Rohingyas are left as stateless people in their own country and are forced to become refugees to seek a better life. The case of the Rohingya people in Myanmar can be a lesson learned for Malaysians who are living in a multi-society country. The government and the people have to be aware that unfair policy and physical violence could increase the intensity of conflict and cause bad implication in terms of peace and harmony in the country. Hence, several possible peace process initiatives of sustainable development must be introduced to transform the certain policy and further strengthen the ethnic relation in Malaysia to ensure everyone lives together in peace and harmony.