An Investigation on the Implementation of Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Malaysia

This paper is interested to investigate the current scenario of TVET in Malaysia with objectives (1) to compare the TVET programmes offered in the public and private agencies, (2) to examine the level of knowledge about the TVET among the university's community and (3) to investigate the issue of gender equality in term of enrolment in TVET programmes and employability of their graduates. The study used the primary and secondary data and have been analysed by using statistical descriptive and parametric methods. The finding from descriptive analysis revealed that, the number of programmes offered by the public sector are more than the programmes offered by the private sector and this sector focus more on manufacturing and construction. Meanwhile, finding from the parametric method reveals that there is gender equality in TVET programmes. From the study we can conclude that there are several issues need to be tackled by the government of Malaysia. First, synchronisation in the management of the TVET programmes between public and private agencies are required to ensure a very good management especially in terms of monetary policy and number and types of programme offered. Second, this study has also discovered that the community in Malaysia is still unaware about the TVET programmes.