%A  Mansor Fadzil
%A  Latifah Abdol Latif
%O Printed and CD-ROM format of 'e-ASEM White Paper : e-Learning for Lifelong Learning' is also available in Tan Sri Dr Abdullah Sanusi Digital Library at call no. LC5808 A78EAS (Ref).
%T e-Learning for Lifelong Learning in Malaysia
%X Lifelong learning initiatives, whether utilising e-Learning or otherwise, are a relatively 
new phenomenon in Malaysia. Education for many people is still characterised by 
formal schooling; and for a certain disadvantaged section of the population, post-sec-
ondary education may not even be a possibility or an option. Out of the projected 
number of 881, 247 individuals enrolled at upper secondary school level in 2010, 
only 277, 904 (or 31.54 per cent) actually go on to participate in post-secondary 
education (Government of Malaysia, 2006).  The remainder 68.46 per cent may gain 
employment without furthering their education, or may not be employed at all. This 
points to an even greater role that lifelong learning programmes has to play; as a 
formal, non-formal or informal means for many more individuals to attain some form 
of education to improve both their professional and personal lives. The foremost 
individual who made the earliest proposal for the enculturation of lifelong learning 
in Malaysia is the then incumbent Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad. During 
and following his tenure, the Government began strategising to implement lifelong 
learning, particularly in the 8MP, OPP3, KEMP, 9MP, NHEAP and NHESP. (Executive summary by the authors)
%K Lifelong learning ; E-learning ; Knowledgeable workforce ; The Malaysian Education System
%P 233-307
%B e-ASEM White Paper : e-Learning for Lifelong Learning
%D 2010
%C Seoul, South Korea 
%I Korea National Open University Press
%L library_repository494