A Mortar Board Does Not Guarantee Employability
By Geoffrey Williams
February 2017 FEATURE
Degrees are fine and good, but technical and communicative skills are just as important.The Malaysian Education Blueprint 20152025 (Higher Education), or MEB (HE), launched on April 7, 2015 sets out a new vision for the development of higher education in Malaysia.[1] There are ambitious plans to raise student numbers from around 1.4 million in 2012 to 2.4 million by 2025.Currently, the private sector accounts for nearly half of higher education students and more than half of academic appointments in Malaysia...
Geoffrey Williams
was a visiting fellow at Penang Institute (2015-2016) specialising in higher education management. He was deputy vice chancellor at Universiti Tun Abdul Razak and professor in the Graduate School of Business. He is founder and director of his own education company, the Academy of Responsible Management, and is a member of the Board of Studies, Faculty of Industrial Management, Universiti Malaysia Pahang. He is currently a professor in the ELM Graduate School at HELP University.
