Good governance in Malaysian public higher learning institutions:Special reference to International Islamic University Malaysia
The higher education industry is in the knowledge business, both creating knowledge through research and transferring knowledge to students. The conventional view on the major role of a higher education institution is always educating students but there are many institutions, particularly the res...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/65194/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/65194/1/IIMU%20CONFERENCE%202008.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/65194/2/Document%202.pdf |
| Summary: | The higher education industry is in the knowledge business, both creating knowledge
through research and transferring knowledge to students. The conventional view on the
major role of a higher education institution is always educating students but there are
many institutions, particularly the research-oriented universities which contended that the
major role of higher education industry should be to generate new knowledge through
research activities.
According to the statistics published by Malaysian Department of Census (DOS) in year
2000, the education industry combined with the health industry are the main actors in the
services sector (98.6 percent).This data illustrates the main role of higher education
institutions as one of the corporate actors in Malaysia. For the public higher learning
institutions, the notion of doing business may not be appropriate as they were established
to generate professional human capital for the country. On the other hand, by year 2010,
all Malaysian public higher learning institutions are expected to generate their own
earnings to cover at least thirty percent of its expenditure and this obviously requires
some entrepreneurship in the University. In short, there is no escape for public
universities from entering the corporate zone!
This paper aims to look into the application of corporate governance/good governance
agenda in IIUM, which is in a unique position, being a public higher learning institution
and at the same time having the status of a company. |
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