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Competency level of employability skills among the apprentices of the National Dual Training System: a comparative analysis of industry perception by company status


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Saari, Hazril Azmin and Mat Rashid, Abdullah (2013) Competency level of employability skills among the apprentices of the National Dual Training System: a comparative analysis of industry perception by company status. International Journal of Education and Research, 1 (11). pp. 1-12. ISSN 2201-6333; ESSN: 2201-6740

Abstract

This study seeks to examine the competency level of employability skills among the apprentices of the National Dual Training System (NDTS) according to the perception of the employers in the industry. The study sample comprises of 56 industrial employers who had given apprentices practical/hands-on training in 2012. Respondents are the industrial bosses in various sectors and different types of companies which are directly involved in training the NDTS apprentices in that particular year. 63 percents of the respondents are from small and medium-sized industries SME), 23 percents are multi-national companies (MNC) and 14 percents are government-linked companies (GLC). The data is obtained via survey and interviews. The result shows that overall competency level of employability skills of the apprentices’ is shown to be at a moderate level. The sub-constructs for the mean of basic skills are 3.23, the mean for personal skills 3.66 and the mean for working as a team 3.35 of 5 point scales. The study findings for the differences of the type of company suggest that the mean score for the employability skill competency among the apprentices in the MNC companies is significantly higher (M= 4.0, SD= 0.125) than the GLC companies (M=3.50, SD=0.227) and the SME companies (M= 3.14, SD= 0.361).The one-way ANOVA test demonstrates a significant difference according to the types of companies which train the apprentices in 2012, F(2,53) = 45.6, p<0.05.As there is a significant difference following the type of companies, the test of Post Hoc Scheffe is conducted to evaluate the source of differences in further detail.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Educational Studies
Publisher: Contemporary Research Center
Keywords: National dual training system; Cooperative vocational education; Industry perception of employability skills; Malaysian apprentice
Depositing User: Emelda Mohd Hamid
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2014 04:34
Last Modified: 15 Feb 2017 02:41
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/29022
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