PUTRAJAYA: A committee will be formed soon to review the National Higher Education Policy to ensure all plans and policies by the Higher Education Ministry (KPT) are based on current reality and include the importance of a sustainable future, said its minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin here today.
He said the committee would be given three months to submit findings and suggestions for improvement.
"Some policy adjustments should be implemented... It demands a change in the way of working, thinking and action taken.
"So it is very important for our (ministry) policy to also change. We leave out outdated ones. Explore new ones and make them successful. We correct the mistakes and avoid the wrongs."
He said the findings and recommendations from the committee would be critical to the ministry with the current national education landscape becoming more diverse, where the roles of all parties need to be sorted out.
"Higher education today is much more complex, and challenging. We need a more sophisticated, sustainable and contemporary plan and strategy to translate national aspirations," he said, adding that the higher education sector was no longer limited to providing skilled graduates to fill the job market.
He suggested a White Paper on "A New Horizon for Science, Technology and Innovation — A Strategy for Malaysia" to prepare the ministry to manage the various changes that affect teaching and learning.
The White Paper aimed to specifically and deeply assess the effects and strategies of the ministry in managing various current and future technological disruptions to teaching, learning and the governance of higher education institutions, he said.
"My aim is to see and prepare how we should manage the various changes and technological booms that greatly affect the country's plans for higher education," he said. — Bernama