Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar, who has been tasked with reforming the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the country, today consulted with the civil society on the way forward.
Addressing the media, Nurul Izzah said the government is looking at a structural reformation but must first consult the stakeholders.
"I don't want people to feel that we are not listening to them, that we know better.
"We need to really realise that we must participate in engagement with stakeholders. So this is part of it. I want it to be streamlined and organised," she said.
Nurul Izzah was briefed by the stakeholders at the Human Resources Ministry in Putrajaya.
"We may need to make some difficult decisions going forward. We have to make it (TVET) demand and industry-driven. That has got to be our continuous mantra.
Accompanying her was Human Resources Minister M Kulasegaran.
Kulasegaran said the government spent around RM4.5 billion on TVET every year with the overlap among seven ministries, with his ministries having the most programmes.
"Most of the TVET programmes are under capacity. Seventy percent are students an 30 percent are vacant... so we want to transform that.
"There must be very good returns on the money that we spend. Now it's under capacity and we want to do away with that," he said.
Kulasegaran said the duo were briefed on possible ways to improve the TVET programmes, including emulating the German model. -Mkini
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