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Higher Education Ministry’s Industry 4.0 framework to be released soon
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Higher Education Ministry’s Industry 4.0 framework is ready.
Documents for the “humanising higher education” framework are being finalised, said Higher Education director-general Datin Paduka Dr Siti Hamisah Tapsir.
“It will be presented soon – by early this year,” she told reporters at the opening of the Star Education Fair 2018 at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre here yesterday.
She said Industry 4.0 requires technological competency, but more important was the human factor.
“The way we train our students must be different.
“They must have both technological, and humanistic competencies.
“Life-long learning and knowing how to analyse data are important,” she said.
Earlier during her opening address, she said robots were not a threat to the workforce.
Emotional intelligence, creativity, and empathy are unique to humans, she added.
“Robots can never create without input from humans.
“We must work with robots, not fear them,” she said, adding that there were already robots serving customers in a kopitiam in Ipoh.
Robots, she said, were meant to simplify things so we could focus on more important things in life, including our families.
She said students would be ready for Industry 4.0 if they knew how to continuously re-skill, up-skill and re-learn, because “technology changes every day”.
Graduates, she said, must be job creators, not job seekers.
Congratulating the Star Media Group on the opening of the fair, Dr Siti Hamisah also thanked the learning institutions for offering scholarships to deserving students.
This year, 31 institutions pledged to contribute 295 scholarships worth more than RM16mil.
According to Star Media Group Berhad group chief operating officer Datuk Calvin Kan, the Star Media Group has always been an advocate for education and life-long learning – regularly organising student-orientated projects like The Star’s Newspaper-in-Education (NiE) pullout and the BRATs young journalist programme.
He said over 500 local and international educational institutions from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Poland, Indonesia, Russia, and India, had taken part in the fair.
“The current economic climate and escalating living costs have made it difficult for many to afford tuition fees, let alone tertiary education.
“Accessibility and affordability of education is a shared responsibility of not just parents, but also higher learning institutions, the Government and private organisations,” he said, adding that the Star Education Fund would make a tertiary education a reality for many talented students.