Access and equity issues in Malaysian higher education

Mukherjee, Hena; Singh, J. S.; Fernandez-Chung, Rozilini M.; Marimuthu, Thangavelu

doi:10.4324/9781315642703-4

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“…The greatly expanded higher education system while increasing opportunities for higher education has raised increasing concerns over the quality of higher education. As noted by Mukherjee et al (2017), the rapid expansion of the higher education sector has produced a limited talent pool and graduates who are not necessarily globally competitive, contrary to the human capital aspirations of the country.…”

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Transforming Malaysia's Higher Education: Policies and Progress

Siew-Yean

Chong

2023

Asian Economic Policy Review

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Malaysia's higher education sector has a substantial number and diverse types of public and private providers, which have contributed toward improving access. Over time, with improved access, there are increasing policy efforts directed toward improving the quality of higher education to meet the desired human capital needed for advancing economic development. This paper assesses three key areas that have been undertaken to improve the quality of higher education, their measurements, achievements, outstanding challenges, and ensuing implications on future policy directions. The key performance indicators used for monitoring quality improvements show that some targets have been achieved. A review of the approach used to measure performance and a consolidation of the sector are needed for further quality improvement.

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“…As noted by Mukherjee et al . (2017), the rapid expansion of the higher education sector has produced a limited talent pool and graduates who are not necessarily globally competitive, contrary to the human capital aspirations of the country.…”

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Transforming Malaysia's Higher Education: Policies and Progress

Siew-Yean

Chong

2023

Asian Economic Policy Review

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“…15 The only work with the closest relevance to the article is that of Mukherjee et al, who rely heavily on government records, including census reports and Labor Force Surveys, to evaluate access to the PHEI, but more on the effect of the Malaysian government's affirmative racial policy in the framework of a socioeconomic analysis. 16 The present article focuses on accessibility in a wider historical and educational context.…”

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Malaysia's Private Higher Education Sector as Provider of Accessibility: A Wider View of Its Historical Growth and Roles Vis-À-Vis the Public Higher Education Sector

Tajudeen

Raja

2021

SEJARAH

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Existing studies relating to the complementary functions of Malaysia’s private higher education institutions (PHIEs) to public higher education institutions, especially in terms of accessibility to tertiary studies, often suffer from a lack of comprehensiveness. While most of the previous works generally address the subject in a politico-economic and policy-making context, this paper discusses as extensively as possible the role of PHIEs in supplementing public higher education institutions from a historical perspective. The findings show it reconstructs the evolution of PHIE's roles as an alternative-provider from the promulgation of the Private Higher Education Act in 1996 to the first decade of the 2000s, primarily by using government official statistics from 2002 to 2010. Focus is put on the educational opportunities provided by private institutions; opportunities for studying courses not offered by public universities; opportunities for furthering study abroad through twinning programs and; the industrial relevance of the courses. Much of the discussion is in the form of qualitative analyses of statistical data.

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Group‐Based Redistribution in Malaysia: Polarization, Incoherence, Stasis

Lee

2024

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Group‐based redistribution is extensive and embedded in Malaysia, and has comprehensively transformed the country since the introduction of the New Economic Policy (NEP) in 1971. The NEP established a “two‐pronged” framework of poverty reduction irrespective of race and social restructuring to redress racial inequalities primarily through preferential programmes targeting the disadvantaged Bumiputera majority. The debate surrounding the NEP has under‐appreciated its strengths and augmented its omissions and misconceptions, which in turn have shaped policy discourses and attitudes in two ways. First, there is marked polarization, largely along ethnic lines, with the majority group overwhelmingly predisposed in favour of Bumiputera policy and minority groups generally wary of its continuation. The polarization unduly reduces the debate to monolithic pro‐NEP vs anti‐NEP dispositions, and constricts the solutions to a false binary question of continuing vs terminating the NEP. Second, a broad but incoherent consensus has consolidated around the notion that “need‐based” policies should comprehensively replace “race‐based” policies. While “need‐based” policies are widely embraced, they emphatically do not constitute a substitute for “race‐based” policies, or group‐based redistribution more generally. Surveys have captured the ethnic polarization surrounding “Malay privileges,” but also show that Malaysians unanimously support universal basic assistance. A systematic policy reformulation with universal basic needs and group‐based interventions as enduring and distinct domains might hold out possibilities for new and constructive compromise.

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Access and equity issues in Malaysian higher education

Cited by 3 publications

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Transforming Malaysia's Higher Education: Policies and Progress

Transforming Malaysia's Higher Education: Policies and Progress

Malaysia's Private Higher Education Sector as Provider of Accessibility: A Wider View of Its Historical Growth and Roles Vis-À-Vis the Public Higher Education Sector

Group‐Based Redistribution in Malaysia: Polarization, Incoherence, Stasis

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