Malaysia: skills for global competitiveness

Traditionally, training in Malaysia has been provided by the State. However, since the late 1980s and 1990s, the government has adopted a policy of involving enterprise in training and has moved from being a training provider to becoming a training facilitator. This reflects the government's recognition of the need for enterprise input into training as Malaysia prepares to attain 'developed nation' status by 2020. The paper discusses the partnerships between the State and enterprise in skills training and concludes with recommendations that would make the existing policies of State-enterprise partnerships more effective.

This paper is part of a collection of papers produced under the research program 'Strategic training partnerships between state and enterprises'. This research program, undertaken between 1995-97 by the Training Policies and Systems Branch (POLFORM) of the ILO, includes case studies from: Australia, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States. Individual papers are indexed from TD/APSDIN 45.13 to TD/APSDIN 45.19, at TD/APSDIN 49.03, TD/TNC 55.195, TD/TNC 57.62, and from TD/TNC 65.279 to TD/TNC 65.287. Show less