Abstract:
One of the key drivers in planning of Malaysia to become a high-income nation is through education. The Malaysian government has spent a fortune especially in upgrading the technical and vocational education. The development of human capital is a critical factor to generate and maintain the growth of Malaysian economy. Highly-skilled human resources is important in the shifting of all economic sectors to a level of activities based intensively knowledge, to generate the labour workforce and to pull in foreign investment into Malaysia. Therefore, the cultivation of human capital into the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) should be given focus as a medium that can be combined with the element in education to give better impact to individuals, skill-based education institutional and also in the aspect of the country development. The cultivation of human capital should start from early level of education if we want to build a highly-skilled generation with first class characteristics of human capital. This article is about issues related to the function of TVET in building a whole individual’s potential that portrays the first class human capital characteristics that is debated lately. |
