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If you’re clueless about what major to take up in university, why not help your country and become a scientist or engineer?
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Malaysia is severely lacking in them, and this may prove to be a hindrance to achieving the Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0).
Director-General of the Department of Higher Education, Datin Paduka Ir Siti Hamisah Tapsir, said that Malaysia has only 70,000 registered engineers so far, as opposed to the 500,000 needed by 2020. “Based on the estimates issued by the National Council for Scientific and Research Development (MKPSB), we need about 500,000 scientists and engineers, but the amount we have now is only 17% of the estimations,” she said.
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“Efforts and integrated measures should be hastened to address the serious problems of the lack of scientists and engineers in the country especially when our country is facing an IR 4.0 challenge,” she added. One way is to create a curriculum that integrates the use of technology in the classrooms.
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