SKILL TRAINING INITIATIVE (STI)
Assuring a higher rate of employment
Why Skill Training?
Traditionally, candidates were hired based on their educational background and work experience. Today, the rapid development of technology has significantly decreased the shelf life of formal education and changed hiring requirements. Even tech giants like IBM, Google, and Apple no longer require a college degree to recruit. Employers are now looking for candidates with solid technical skills, which will nonetheless need to be fine-tuned frequently to keep up with technological advances. Soft skills like creativity, adaptability, problem-solving, and critical thinking are also becoming increasingly desirable, if not imperative.
Skill Training in Malaysia
For the nation to move forward in tandem with the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) and beyond, there is a clear need for a well-trained technical workforce with skill sets that are present- and future-ready as well as future-resilient. Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) programmes have always been seen as the vehicle to prepare aptly-skilled human capital but somehow the general perspective is that they fall short in terms of the level of skills and knowledge needed for the industry to forge ahead.
What is being offered in Malaysia?
The Ministry of Higher Education
Technical and Vocational Education at Post Secondary Level
This post-secondary level of technical education, which is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Higher Education, comprises the following public institutions:
Polytechnics
Community Colleges
Technical University Colleges
Public Universities
Awareness Programmes Conducted to Spread the Benefits of Skill Training
EWRF has for the last 10 years championed the benefits of Skill Training and the future it offers for those who embrace it. EWRF believes not everyone is academically inclined therefore Skill Training presents an alternative pathway towards a successful career and future
