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Chart 2 - iCGPA Assessment , Source : MOHE
Sultan Zainal Abidin and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia . The courses include entrepreneurship , food science , accounting , plantation management and computer science . Ir . Dr Siti Hamisah reveals that the Ministry is looking to expand the 2u2i programme to 26 universities this year .
The Redesigning initiatives have progressively contributed to the employability rate of Malaysian graduates . The average employability rate is 77.3 %, where MTUNs have recorded a percentage of 87.1 %, public universities at 77.3 % and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia at 78.1 %. This indicates that graduates from technology-based universities remain highly employed at 82.6 % among engineering graduates .
Learning from the corporate leaders and professionals has also been introduced to the University academia . Top CEOs and industry players are appointed as Adjunct Professors and commit up to 30 hours of teaching a year to give public lectures and share their knowledge to the university students and lecturers . Starting with 24 CEOs in 2015 , this CEO @ Faculty programme has grown to 60 CEOs in 2016 .
Collaboration with industry has also strengthened with the help of other Government bodies . The Malaysian Industrial Development Authority ( MIDA ) for instance , matches investors and research grants with relevant research universities . With this kind of support , Ir . Dr Siti Hamisah adds that Malaysian Research Universities have reached the top 1 % in the world ( out of 30,000 universities worldwide ). The prominent institutions include Universiti Malaya , Universiti Putra Malaysia , Universiti Teknologi Malaysia , Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universiti Sains Malaysia .
Ir . Dr Siti notes that MOHE seeks input from professional bodies and Non-Governmental Organisations to further improve the higher education programmes . BEM was requested to explore whether the 2u2i concept can be
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