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INGENIEUR Higher Learning Institutions Ministry of Education, 2014 Each dot represents one Higher Learning Institution in Malaysia 20 410 Public Universities Private Colleges 91 70 Private Universities Community Colleges 34 33 Private University Colleges 14 Polytechnics Dato’ Seri Zaini acknowledges the many challenges in enhancing TVET. Foremost is the bias against TVET as it is perceived as less valuable than an academic qualification. As such, one of MEB’s strategies is to ‘re-brand’ this form of education to reduce the negative Education Blueprint 2015 - 2025 (Higher Educ perception and make it a careerMalaysia choice. In this Shift 4 Quality TVET Gra area, MOE encourages collaboration with NGOs and professional associations. Looking at the big picture, the MEB outlines four strategies to improve TVET education, namely: Strategy A: Enhancing industry-led curriculum MOE’s TVET providers will engage industries to facilitate the process of upgrading current programmes and making them more relevant. This includes developing more well qualified Students and Academic staff trainers with appropriate industrial experience and The TVET landscape in Malaysia is diverse with multiple private and public sector institutions. The current capacity for TVET students in public institutions is abo 1.2 million 0.1 million certification. TVET providers across different ministeries and agencies. The Ministry aims to 230,000 and more than 50% are provided by the Ministry’s own polytechnics, Higher Institutions Centres of Excellence (HICoE) Where we ar Ministry of Education, 2014 Each dot represents 1,000 students International students TOTAL INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS TOTAL STUDENT ENROLMENT Public Universities Represents 500 Academics PhD holders Private Universities, University Collegesqualifications and Colleges graduates whose ACADEMICS ensure that it develops quality TVET meet national community colleges and vocational colleges. This percentage does not include th (33,199) ACADEMICS Strategy Malaysian B: Creating integrated and co(24,476) This will require and international frameworks and satisfy industry expectations. Technical Universities (MTUN) and other higher learning institution ordinated governance structure addressing several challenges in the TVET sector. (HLIs) that provide diploma and degree level TVET programmes. MOE will improve the governance of the TVET The qualifications for academic and vocational education sectors (programmes o institutions within its purview by setting upare currently accredited b by universities, polytechnics, and community colleges) In 2013, 321,000 students from a total cohort of 429,000 post-SPM (Sijil Pel