Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders
This qualitative inquiry aims at identifying the main issues in Malaysian higher education (HE) system and its sectors from the perspectives of Malaysian academic leaders. For this purpose, four open-ended questions were distributed among 2,786 academic leaders in 25 universities. More than 235 comp...
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| author | Ghasemy, Majid Hussin, Sufean Megat Daud, Megat Ahmad Kamaluddin Md Nor, Mariani Ghavifekr, Simin Kenayathulla, Husaina Banu |
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| description | This qualitative inquiry aims at identifying the main issues in Malaysian higher education (HE) system and its sectors from the perspectives of Malaysian academic leaders. For this purpose, four open-ended questions were distributed among 2,786 academic leaders in 25 universities. More than 235 completed questionnaires were collected, containing nearly 4,500 records of priorities, values, challenges, and solutions. Through a quantitative content analysis approach, the records were categorized using the software package ATLAS.ti 7. This resulted to the emergence of 112 categories. Using SPSS 23, the top five categories with maximum frequencies of records were focused for further evaluation. The comparison of the issues in Malaysian HE and its sectors revealed that some of issues were common in all the sectors. In addition, the examination of these categories of data did result to the classification of them into five major categories namely Academic Core Activities, Change and Leadership, Management, Relationships, and Work Values. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-220412019-08-23T02:39:44Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/22041/ Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders Ghasemy, Majid Hussin, Sufean Megat Daud, Megat Ahmad Kamaluddin Md Nor, Mariani Ghavifekr, Simin Kenayathulla, Husaina Banu L Education (General) LB2300 Higher Education This qualitative inquiry aims at identifying the main issues in Malaysian higher education (HE) system and its sectors from the perspectives of Malaysian academic leaders. For this purpose, four open-ended questions were distributed among 2,786 academic leaders in 25 universities. More than 235 completed questionnaires were collected, containing nearly 4,500 records of priorities, values, challenges, and solutions. Through a quantitative content analysis approach, the records were categorized using the software package ATLAS.ti 7. This resulted to the emergence of 112 categories. Using SPSS 23, the top five categories with maximum frequencies of records were focused for further evaluation. The comparison of the issues in Malaysian HE and its sectors revealed that some of issues were common in all the sectors. In addition, the examination of these categories of data did result to the classification of them into five major categories namely Academic Core Activities, Change and Leadership, Management, Relationships, and Work Values. SAGE Publications 2018 Article PeerReviewed Ghasemy, Majid and Hussin, Sufean and Megat Daud, Megat Ahmad Kamaluddin and Md Nor, Mariani and Ghavifekr, Simin and Kenayathulla, Husaina Banu (2018) Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders. SAGE Open, 8 (1). p. 215824401875583. ISSN 2158-2440, DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018755839 <https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018755839>. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244018755839 doi:10.1177/2158244018755839 |
| spellingShingle | L Education (General) LB2300 Higher Education Ghasemy, Majid Hussin, Sufean Megat Daud, Megat Ahmad Kamaluddin Md Nor, Mariani Ghavifekr, Simin Kenayathulla, Husaina Banu Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders |
| title | Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders |
| title_full | Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders |
| title_fullStr | Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders |
| title_full_unstemmed | Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders |
| title_short | Issues in Malaysian Higher Education: A Quantitative Representation of the Top Five Priorities, Values, Challenges, and Solutions From the Viewpoints of Academic Leaders |
| title_sort | issues in malaysian higher education a quantitative representation of the top five priorities values challenges and solutions from the viewpoints of academic leaders |
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