Higher Education, Learning Regions and the Malaysian Transformation Policies

Autor/inn/en	Azman, Norzaini; Sirat, Morshidi; Ahmad, Abdul Razak
Titel	Higher Education, Learning Regions and the Malaysian Transformation Policies
Quelle	In: Higher Education Policy, 27 (2014) 3, S.301-321 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0952-8733
DOI	10.1057/hep.2013.26
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Educational Policy; Educational Change; Master Plans; Strategic Planning; Content Analysis; Developing Nations; Economic Development; Knowledge Economy; Malaysia; Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Produktionsplanung und -steuerung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Inhaltsanalyse; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft
Abstract	The process of globalisation has undoubtedly impacted countries, bringing about different challenges for each country, region and locality. Many countries have responded positively to the demands and challenges through a societal transformation process with an emphasis on developing tertiary education, research and innovative capacities. Drawing upon our experience with two cases of newly developed learning regions, Kuala Lumpur city-region and Iskandar Malaysia region, we examine Malaysia's effort at transforming its higher education system in the context of learning region objectives. Key government policies, namely, the Tenth Malaysia Plan, the National Higher Education Strategic Plan 2007-2020, the Economic Transformation Programme as well as documents of the learning regions' master plans were included in the document analysis. Although it remains to be seen how the learning regions will emerge, the experience in transforming higher education based on the learning region concept is highly relevant to developing countries that are attempting to shift their traditional economy to a more knowledge-intensive economy. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10