Function of the Committee:

The EUMCCI Education Committee fosters dialogue, promotes initiatives, recommends and implements strategies that create awareness and facilitates active engagement between members, educational institutions and the business sector in Malaysia. The Committee has engaged with 12 Malaysian Universities concentrating on facilitating industry-academia linkages in R&D, placement of academia at EUMCCI member companies and EUMCCI Industry captains placed at Curriculum Boards of Universities.

Chair of Committee: Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Williams, Deputy Vice Chancellor of UniRazak

Deputy Chair: Olivia Draeger, University of Nottingham and Mahadi Sibon, University of Malaya

Recommendations:

Concentrating more in industry-academia linkages in R&D, placement of academia at EUMCCI member companies and EUMCCI Industry captains placed at Curriculum Boards of Universities.

2013 Activities

• 4 Committee Meetings

• Debate: Private Sectors vs Universities

Stakeholders: Private Sectors and National Universities

Key Issues on:

1. Skills shortages: An escalating problem
2. Workforce Skills issues: Experience with skills shortages and skills sets needing improvement
3. The challenges of meeting future labour and skills requirements
4. Solutions to skills shortages

Event Format: Breakfast Debate

Target Audience: Private Sectors + Academics

• Breakfast Dialogue / VIP Luncheon with Secretary General from Ministry of Education

• Site visit to a Training Centre

• Debate: Public Universities vs Private Universities

Stakeholders: All Universities

Key Issues on strengths, weaknesses and challenges

Event Format: Breakfast Debate

Target Audience: Academics

• MYEULINK – Education Fair 2013

Committee Minutes of previous Meetings:

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Committee Position Paper:

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