MALAYSIA
Call for a more entrepreneurial approach to HE
Significant policy reform and innovation are needed to make radical but necessary changes to the traditional education ecosystem, says Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah. The Perak ruler said a more entrepreneurial approach to higher education must be fostered to bring about these changes, writes Amanda Yeap for The Star.“This is to ensure that our higher education sector is dynamic and inclusive enough to flourish in an unpredictable, fast-transforming world,” he said in his royal address at the Malaysia Higher Education 4.0 seminar at Universiti Teknologi Petronas last week. “An entrepreneurial approach would include a greater role for industry and public-private partnerships, drawing on the greater dynamism and innovation in the private sector. This is particularly so in relation to the adoption of digital technologies,” he said.
Sultan Nazrin said, however, such efforts may meet resistance from the more traditional institutions. “It will take a lot of courage and tenacity from visionary leaders to introduce the required reforms … Such systemic change has clearly become necessary if our higher education is to keep up with developments.”
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