Category Archives: TVET

Malaysia’s technical and vocational education sector has spent the past decade collecting memoranda of understanding. What makes 2026 different is that several of them have started producing campuses, equipment and enrolled students — and a large share of that movement sits squarely in Malaysia-China TVET cooperation. The clearest example is the Malaysia-China Institute (MCI). Announced […]

Malaysia’s technical and vocational education sector has had an unusually loud year, and the signals all point in one direction: skills training is no longer a fallback pathway. It is national policy. The clearest marker came at National TVET Day 2026 at Dataran Putrajaya, where 510,151 visitors turned up over three days — a record […]

Last week, industry voices in Sabah returned to a familiar theme: the state’s oil and gas sector needs a deeper pool of certified technical talent, and the TVET ecosystem is the mechanism to build it. Reporting on 22 August 2026 highlighted calls to strengthen Sabah’s technical and vocational training pipeline so that local workers can […]

Malaysia’s technical and vocational education sector is having a moment that can actually be measured. Between January and June 2026, employers advertised 343,836 TVET-related job opportunities through the MYFutureJobs portal at an average advertised salary of RM3,658 a month, Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri R. Ramanan announced in late July. Demand stretched across engineering, electrical […]

Malaysia’s technical and vocational education sector is having an unusually busy year, and two threads of it are worth reading together: the drive to make Malaysian skills qualifications recognised abroad, and the deepening TVET partnership with China. In July 2026, the Human Resources Ministry launched the Department of Skills Development (JPK) Internationalisation Action Plan 2026–2030 […]

Malaysia’s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector just posted one of its strongest showings yet. According to Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri R. Ramanan, TVET-related vacancies advertised on the MYFutureJobs platform between January and June 2026 totalled 343,836 — a figure that underscores how central skills training has become to the country’s labour […]

KUALA LUMPUR — As Malaysia sharpens its push to make technical and vocational education and training (TVET) the backbone of its industrial workforce, nine young Malaysians are preparing for a stage that captures exactly why TVET Malaysia China cooperation matters: WorldSkills Shanghai 2026. The TVET@KKDW contingent — comprising participants from MARA TVET, Universiti Kuala Lumpur […]