TVET skills gap analysis in electrical and electronic industry: perspectives from academicians and industry players
Skills mismatch or skill gap is a long-standing issue whereby the levels and types of the existing skills do not meet the needs of the job market. With no exception, this issue also become one of the challenges that facing by Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). If this issue...
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Language: | English |
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Penerbit UTHM
2022
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Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/7632/1/J14545_589eed8c29c1514d65215aa72ecb8014.pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/7632/ https://doi.org/10.30880/jtet.2022.14.01.014 |
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Summary: | Skills mismatch or skill gap is a long-standing issue whereby the levels and types of the existing skills do
not meet the needs of the job market. With no exception, this issue also become one of the challenges that facing by
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). If this issue prolongs, it will lead to graduate
unemployment, specifically in TVET. Therefore, this study aims to identify the occupational skills (including both
soft and hard skills) that are perceived as important by those in public Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and the
electrical and electronic (E&E) industry which represent the manufacturing industry. A total of 58 academicians
from public HEI and 55 industry players from the E&E industry in Malaysia were chosen purposively. These
academicians and industry players were selected as they are having experience in occupational skill and training in
their respective institutions and industries. Questionnaires were distributed online to these targeted respondents. The
results revealed that there are skills gaps in terms of both soft and hard skills, which all skills are skills related to the
career in E&E industry. The outcomes of this study should enable the Ministry of Higher Education, mainly in TVET
to devise strategies to improve graduate employability. They might also serve as additional evidence for the
occurrence of skills mismatch. |
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