Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2025)
The declining number of Malaysian students opting for the science stream has impacted the country's global PISA ranking. This paper presents the development of a Project-based Learning-Technology-based Learning (PBL-TBL) science module for preschool children, aiming to foster early interest in scien…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2024)
The surveying profession has proven its value in the current era of development, as it offers services that generate, enhance, preserve, and protect valuable property and assets. Despite increasing attention, surveying education seems to be falling behind in meeting the demands of the construction i…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2022)
It is theoretically acknowledged that strategically organised talent management organisational mission, vision, and mission. It was reported that only 70% of universities in Malaysia declared workforce-ready graduates. As a result of the graduate employability investigation, the Ministry of Higher E…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2022)
One of the most crucial factors that influence the success of a construction project is communication. However, past studies found that communication failure frequently occurs at civil engineering workplaces. Among communication failures reported were oral communications, such as giving instruction …
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2021)
In the age of innovation, digitalization, and globalization today, deciding to take a career path has been growing and challenging. The career path continues to increase its stature as a career choice, pursued by many in an evolving, unpredictable, and competitive marketplace. Students’ general care…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2021)
Graduates should know how technical and vocational education and training (TVET) can increase their employability and set them on a path to a professional career. However, graduate underemployment continues to be a severe and rising issue in many countries due to graduates' lack of readiness to make…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2021)
Entrepreneurial knowledge is important and it has been adopted in numerous curriculum and subject matters. Even though the embedding of the entrepreneurship syllabus in the curriculum might be able to enhance the knowledge of the students and subsequently trigger their interests in business, very of…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2021)
This study’s principal objective is to investigate the relationship between student engagement in learning entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intention among students in a vocational college. The selected vocational colleges are located in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, and the Federal Terri…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2020)
Human resources today must be nurtured with the skills needed at the workplace in preparation for future challenges. Many engineering graduates nowadays are facing difficulties in adapting themselves to the workplace. They are highly dependent on academic qualifications and underestimate the need fo…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2020)
The profession of gerontology social work in Malaysia is not well known and is usually assumed as volunteer work without any professional certification. This study explored the competency skills and social work impact in gerontology, among the graduates in enhancing their interest in caring for the …
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2020)
The emergence of teungku, another term of ulamâ (Islamic scholars) in Aceh, from different worlds (e.g., lecturers of natural sciences) has been a growing phenomenon in recent years, which affects their academic identity. However, research on this issue has been scant. This study attempted to fill i…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2019)
The development of self-directed language learning needs to be seen not only from the point of view of the learners, but also from the perspective of the teachers. Teachers play a critical role in encouraging self-directedness and it is important to examine how they may or may not, either directly o…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2019)
Sustainable development in education, or Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), is one of the proposed sustainable development policies in Malaysia. This resulted in educational institutions of the country, in particular higher education institutions, starting to bond with the transition towar…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2017)
Surveys carried out in some countries show that more than half of labours have inadequate literacy skills to work in environments with knowledgeable society. Hence, as an institution orientating to workforce supply, vocational education is expected to instil a habit of literacy practice, which will …
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2017)
The quality of skilled workers in the TVET training system of Malaysia as assessed by the automotive industry includes technical and non-technical skills. However, Public Training Skills Institutions (PTSI) have failed to produce highly skilled, competent and high workability trainees for the workfo…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2017)
There has been a global call for institutions of learning to engage in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) by leading world organisations. Although scholars advocate for an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, the research literature shows that majority of sustainability issues are …
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2017)
Various efforts have been taken by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) to improve the country's education system. Learning methods were introduced to ensure the education system achieves the desired educational goals and produces individuals who are w…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2017)
Employers are expecting to hire graduates who can function as employees who are equipped with various skills and excel in social skills and social values (SSSV). Industry has high expectations of the ability of graduates, and it is now paramount for graduates not only to be equipped with academic qu…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2017)
Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is one of the learning strategies in Student-Centred Learning (SCL). Although the theoretical success stories of SRL have been well documented, there are few stories from actual practice and implementation of SRL, especially in technical and vocational education. Hence,…
Published:Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
(2015)
As countries modernise and ascend their development trajectories, their focus often shifts from informal to more formalised forms of education/training. Substantial portions of a nation's GDP are budgeted towards the formalisation and universalisation of education whilst informal education slips out…
