REVIEW OF INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISM FOR INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT IN TVET/SKILLS TRAINING

WORKPLAN

• Kick-off meeting with ILO
• Development of Workplan and Report Layout
• Approval of workplan and report layout

Planning

Desk Review

Engagement

In-depth Interview

• Draft interim report to ILO
• Information consolidation
• Writing and structuring of interim report
• Review and submit to ILO

IR Workshop

Final Report (Draft)

DFR Workshop

DFR – 1^st Revision

• Develop structural requirement for implementation involving –
• Model and approach for institutions
• Strategic operational requirement

Draft TOR

DFR – 2^nd Revision

Final Report (FR)

Government

Department of skills development (DSD), Malaysian Qualification Agencies (MQA), Manpower Department, Department of Polytechnic and Community College Education (DPCCE), Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries (MAFI) and Human Resource Development Fund.

Sectoral regulatory bodies

Construction Industry Development Board Malaysia (CIDB) and Department of Occupational Safety & Health, Food Safety & Quality Division in the Department of Public Health (BKKM).

Industry-led bodies

Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF), Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) and Master Builders Association Malaysia (MBAM).

State-focused TVET institutions

KISMEC, PSDC, SSTC and GIATMARA.

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REPORT LAYOUT

• Explain the urgent needs of highly skilled workforce
• Elaborate the needs of TVET stakeholder and related institution to become industry driven
• Highlight the issue related to industry engagement by TVET stakeholders and Institutions, where the industry roles ad responsibility is still ambiguous and unstructured
• Intention to promote the transition from the government-led to industry-led skills demand and supply coordination through sectoral approaches to skills development.

Preamble

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• Elaborate and establish the analytical framework for institutional mechanisms for industry engagement in TVET in Malaysia
• Analytical framework consists of seven key areas- skills standard setting and development, delivery if training, expertise sharing and attachment, change management and assessment, employment services, finance and upskilling and reskilling.
• Analysis on existing report related to TVET – BCG report, PwC Report (The TVET Master Plan) and McKinsey Report – for Ministry of Youth
• Review on Institutional Mechanism from the Global Perspective – focusing on roles, responsibility, challenges and achievement in the past and existing industry engagement mechanism
• In depth review on Institutional Mechanisms for Industry Engagement In TVET/ Skills Training in Malaysia particularly on Construction and Manufacturing Sectors.

Literature Review

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• Elaborate and analyze the roles, responsibilities, mechanisms, achievements, and challenges of the institutions for industry engagement in TVET/skills development
• Overview & analysis of initiatives led by leading ministries for TVET/ Skills Development such as Ministry of Human Resources (MoHR), Department of Skills Development (DSD) and Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries (MAFI)
• Overview and analysis of initiatives led by sectoral regulatory bodies related to TVET such as CIDB and BKKM
• Overview and analysis of Industry-led initiatives from organizations such as Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF), Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM) and Master Builders Association Malaysia (MBAM)
• Overview and analysis on state-focused TVET institutions – KISMEC, PSDC and SSTC and the ecosystem of GIATMARA and its approach in localizing industry engagement based on parliamentary/state request/needs
• Analyzing and understanding the effectiveness and functions of Industry Advisory Council (IAC) or Industry Advisory Panel (IAP) in and Industry Lead Body (ILB) in TVET Institution and Higher Education Provider

Malaysia Cases: Industry Engagement – Current Situation and Future

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• This chapter will cover several advance countries that practices effective and comprehensive industry engagement mechanism within their TVET Institutions namely Germany, India and Singapore
• Germany and South Korea – Analysis on the role of industry under the German Chambers of Commerce in developing curriculum, monitoring in company training, registering training contracts, organize interim and final exam. Further analysis for South Korea industry led model that emulates the German model.
• India – Analysis of India sector based skill council that highly involves industry in Identification of skill development needs, Determining skills/competency standards and qualifications and Standardization of affiliation, accreditation, examination and certification
• Singapore – Analyze and explore the involvement of industry within the sector based skill council in advising the various VET institutions and programs and in setting occupational standards, in assessing candidates for diplomas and providing state-of-the-art equipment for training purposes.

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International Practices: Industry Engagement Model in Advanced Countries *(To be confirmed and elaborated with international experts)

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• Comparison between advanced countries and Malaysia, in depth analysis and lesson learnt in the aspect of industry engagement in TVET/Skills institutions and analysis on other important items, in context of Malaysia vs advanced countries such as:
• Tools and method used in development of syllabus and curriculum such as workshop, research, survey and related action-based study.
• Functional analysis and mapping techniques for developing related TVET standard.
• Expert Engagement which consists of government, industry and academician.
• Decision making process – effectiveness of decision-making process in Malaysia vs. advance countries.
• Execution process for implementation in national and local level that consider accountability, tracking, monitoring and evaluation.
• Policy support from collaborative partner includes government, industry and institution by collective support.

TVET Industry Engagement: Comparison between Model in Advanced Countries & Malaysia

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• Application of sectoral approaches within TVET Institutions in Malaysia. The approach from advanced countries will be compiled, analyzed and customized for Malaysia situation and needs. Focus on possible ways and benefit, challenges to enhance the function of industry-led sectoral skills bodies which covers -
• Development and review of the TVET/skills curriculum/program
• Funding and incentives
• Monitoring and evaluation of TVET institution and industry specifically for industrial engagement
• Development of a working model and ecosystem for implementation in Malaysia which involves industry-led institutional mechanisms for sectoral approaches, strong TVET Institution alliance and strong support/facilitation from Government

The Model: Structured Institutional Mechanism for Industrial Engagement in TVET

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• The final chapter will elaborate the conclusion of this review which will cover –

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• Industrial leadership – how it should start from the industry-led program and curriculum design which comes from comprehensive industry input, strengthen with the input from TVET/skills institutions.
• Strong industry linkage – how this part is important to stimulate the workforce employability, career progression for skilled workforce and being one of the driving mechanisms for effective industry engagement.
• The proposed working mechanism and ecosystem for institutional mechanism for industry engagement in TVET/skills in Malaysia that involves strategic and active collaboration from government, education institution and industry.
• The proposed viable model and mechanism include structural requirements for each type of institutions such as functions, management structure, resource, supporting legal framework and rough roadmaps to develop each institutional mechanism in Malaysia.
• Changing the TVET paradigm by propose the feasible model will ensuring a better future of skilled workforce and development of TVET.

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Conclusion

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KNOWLEDGE

We need resourceful knowledge and information on your current approach in industry engagement for us to dig deeper and identify good practices in Malaysia vs. advance countries.

EXPERIENCE

We need your experience to assist us in identifying the best approach and mechanism to develop a robust industry-led institutional mechanism for industry engagement in TVET.

IDEA

We need your idea to help us identify the gap and room for improvement in the existing institutional mechanism for industry engagement and the idea of establishing sector based skill council.