Our Young Need New Ways of Financing Their Higher Education

By Zairil Khir Johari

April 2016 CARPE DIEM
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Any system for raising human resource skills must not only care about the present generation but be sustainable over generations. A rethinking in that direction is sorely needed.Higher education in Malaysia has evolved together with the economy. In the 1980s large-scale industrialisation saw agriculture and mining giving way to manufacturing and services as the main drivers of GDP growth.Consequently, rapid sustained growth into the 1990s pushed the country to accelerate the production of human resources in order to meet the...

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Zairil Khir Johari

is the Penang state executive councillor for public works, utilities and flood mitigation, and the state assemblyman for Tanjong Bunga.

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