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Sia Woon Teen; Tan Jih Huei; Lee Tiong Chan; Tay Jia Chyi – SAGE Open, 2024
COVID-19 pandemic has brought drastic and unprecedented challenges to the medical education and medical students, affecting them physically, mentally and emotionally. While progressing through the post-pandemic recovery phase, it is crucial to comprehensively evaluate the pandemic's consequences and tackle the underlying problems. To investigate…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Medical Students, Mental Health
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Islam, Md Asadul; Hack-Polay, Dieu; Rahman, Mahfuzur; Jantan, Amer Hamzah; Dal Mas, Francesca; Kordowicz, Maria – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
The study examines the personal, social, and organizational barriers facing women in university leadership positions in South Asia, building on the cases of Malaysia and Bangladesh. We discussed the topic through the lens of interactionist feminist theory. Semi-structured interviews with 20 female deans from 12 public universities in Malaysia and…
Descriptors: Barriers, Females, Women Administrators, Higher Education
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Bharucha, Jehangir Pheroze – International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 2021
While higher education isrich in diversity and rewards, it can be particularly arduousforfirst-generation college students. This paper reportsthe results of a qualitative research study investigating the college experiences, identity development, and issues faced by this student subpopulation that moved from sixth-form and completed the…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Student Experience, Student Adjustment, Self Concept
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Yusof, Norhafezah; Tengku Ariffin, Tengku Faekah; Awang Hashim, Rosna; Nordin, Hasniza; Kaur, Amrita – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2020
Purpose: The main purpose of service learning is to produce holistically developed students. Since 2015, the Ministry of Higher Education has mandated the infusion of service learning into various study programs, however till today, service learning across the country is still in its infancy. Critical insights on its contextual compatibility is…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, College Students
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Farid, Sofeana Mohd; Rahman, Shukran Abdul – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2020
Entrepreneurship activities have been promoted in Malaysian universities through entrepreneurship education, mainly with the aim to minimize youth unemployment rate in Malaysia. The effort may have been hindered due to many reasons that may explain the lack of effectiveness of entrepreneurship education found in previous studies. The present study…
Descriptors: Barriers, Entrepreneurship, Undergraduate Students, Public Colleges
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Da Wan, Chang; Chapman, David W.; Zain, Ahmad Nurulazam Md; Hutcheson, Sigrid; Lee, Molly; Austin, Ann E. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2015
This paper examines the sources of satisfaction and frustration among Malaysian academics across three types of higher education institutions (HEIs)--public research university, public comprehensive university and private non-profit university. Based on interview with 67 academics across six HEIs, there is a clear pattern and relationship between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Culture, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes