In May 2024, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim launched the National Semiconductor Strategy. Its talent goal speaks directly to the country’s engineering faculties: 60,000 high-skilled Malaysian engineers and workers for the chip industry by…
Eight editions of Malaysia’s Critical Occupations List, and two hands-on tech jobs appear in every one: Software Developers and Information Technology System Administrators. The list, known as MyCOL, is published by TalentCorp, an agency under…
Since 1 September, Malaysians aged 18 to 30 have been able to earn three months of free access to selected AI apps. All it takes is completing a set of course modules first. The…
Minister of Digital Mr. Gobind Singh Deo named talent development as one of the clearest priorities in his foreword to AI Nation 2030: National AI Action Plan 2026–2030, alongside digital infrastructure, startup support, and public-private…
You can rewrite every syllabus in the country, but if the lecturer standing at the front of the hall doesn’t know how to use the tools themselves, the new syllabus is just paper. That gap…
Picture two students starting the same computer science degree on the same day. One's coasting through the first-year modules, bored by week six. The other is falling behind by week two, and nobody in a…
Ask any dean how long it takes to get a new course through accreditation in Malaysia, and you’ll get a sigh before you get a number. That gap, between how fast AI moves and how…
On September 4, 2026, Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir stood in a lab at Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) in Kuala Lumpur. He launched something new: Malaysia’s first…
