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challenges
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#2 Perception towards TVET

The community tends to classify TVET as a second class or as a last resort in the education path.

This is because, the negative stigma among the community that regards TVET as a field meant for
secondary school leavers who are not quite excellent academically. Majority of industry players
also are not able to see the correlation between the qualifications of TVET graduates with the
improvement of productivity and the quality of work that the graduates can contribute. The
industry still thinks that TVET graduates do not meet the desired quality in terms of technical, soft
skills, attitudes and job attributes.

The new media-based branding strategy

has enhanced the reputation of TVET
institutions and attracted more secondary
school leavers to join TVET programmes
and thereby become the driving force of
innovation in developing a technology-
based economy in the country.

Source: Sinar, 10 November 2017

Source: KOSMO, 19 November 2016 Source: Sunday Star, 1 Oktober 2017

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