Categorisation of Public Universities Funding

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the impact of Federal Government policy on the categorisation of Malaysian public universities. The results of a quantitative survey questionnaire for major data collection and qualitative focus group interviews confirm that the initiative have an impact on research and teaching activities in Malaysian public universities. It can be concluded that the categorisation of Malaysian public universities play an important role in the development of research and teaching with greater focus on the university core functions. By utilising the results, the most important implications of this research relate to the practical aspects of the administration of public universities in Malaysia particularly during the government funding reforms. Finally, the researchers believe that the categorisation of Malaysian public universities is a rich and complex subject that offers many opportunities for future research including the comparative edge of Research/Apex Universities over other universities.

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“…In an effort to discuss the FGD, all the participants are explained as individual cases based on their experience as researcher and also their experience as a top management in their respective faculties such as Dean, Deputy Dean, Director or Head of Department (A. R. Ahmad et al, 2014; A. R. Ahmad, Farley, & Naidoo, 2012b;Iqbal & Mahmood, 2011). The participants are identified with the short alphabetic name as contributors to the FGD session.…”

“…When used in comparison, research performance is usually considered using funding and publication as the major research performance indicator in Malaysia (A. R. Ahmad et al, 2014;A. R. Ahmad, Farley, & Naidoo, 2012a).…”

“…Of the 20 universities in Malaysia, universities categorized as a Research university (RU), comprehensive university (CU) and focused university (FU) by Malaysian Ministry of Higher Learning. The three categorized university has a different level of pressure on doing research depending on their different key performance indicator (A. R. Ahmad et al, 2014). The data collection only take one research university (UPM) as a case study and may be vary result from the Comprehensive Universities like UITM, UIA and UMS or Focused Universities like UTEM, UTHM, UPSI, USIM etcetera.…”

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“…However, what is the perspective and base of improving teaching quality and learning achievement are all the leaders, administrators, teachers, students and stakeholders' important thinking point. Based on related literatures, balanced scorecard perspective offers to develop internal and external performance with school vision and strategies through four dimensions of customer, financial, internal business and learning/growth (Ahmad & Soon, 2015). In addition, curriculum review is a strategy of overall thinking for assuring quality in university (Lock, Hill, & Dyjur, 2018, p. 118).…”