INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: THE OUM EXPERIENCE

Hidayati Kasuma Abdul Hadi, INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: THE OUM EXPERIENCE. In: WIDYATAMA INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR (WIS). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

A high income nation requires a highly skilled workforce with adequate competencies to trigger the innovation-led growth and promote productivity. As today’s world of work includes mergers and acquisitions, rapid market fluctuations and other turbulences, the workforce needs to upgrade their basic educational base to be able to respond to the emerging needs of a high income nation. No longer an employee can have a lifetime employment in a single company. The workforce needs to polish their professional skills in addition to its current technical skills which can be developed through continuous education. Only then, they will have a hollistic development of both professional and technical skills which enable them to help increase productivity. The changing demands of the markets put pressure on the workforce to learn new skills at an accelerating pace

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: L Education > LC Special aspects of education > LC5800 Distance education
Depositing User: Mr. Shahril Effendi Ibrahim
Date Deposited: 21 Mar 2014 08:11
Last Modified: 21 Mar 2014 08:11
URI: http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/id/eprint/932

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