When Putrajaya published the National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (NSTIP) 2021–2030, then-Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Khairy Jamaluddin wrote in its foreword that Malaysia should “aspire to be...
A research policy is only as good as the people trained to carry it out, and the National Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy (NSTIP) 2021–2030 spends an entire thrust on...
Before Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) gets spent on Malaysian research, someone has to decide what’s worth funding in the first place. The National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (NSTIP) 2021–2030 answers...
For a document shaped by 8,226 stakeholder inputs, the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) doesn’t shy away from listing what isn’t working in its own Higher Education Blueprint. A few...
Most higher education policy documents describe a system. This one goes further: it spells out, group by group, what each type of person in Malaysian higher education can expect to...
A student in Johor runs a lab experiment on a laptop. In Sarawak, a university college is preparing to provide its students with aircraft design tools on-screen. Both scenes come...
On 7 October 2026, Malaysia’s National Cyber Security Agency (NACSA) launched the My Cyber Hero Portal at the CyberDSA 2026 defence and security conference. It’s an interactive cybersecurity learning platform...
Malaysia has set a minimum target of 3,000 smart factories for its manufacturers by 2030, under Mission 2 of the New Industrial Master Plan 2030 (NIMP 2030). Every one of...
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...
