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Malaysian adolescents not in school: the nexus of education, work and gender
Shyamala Nagaraj1, Kiong-Hock Lee2, Kim-Leng Goh3, Nai-Peng Tey4.
Malaysia has achieved all the Millennium Development Goals, including that of
education, a consequence of expanding opportunities for education at all levels. These
positives notwithstanding, significant attrition occurs in secondary school despite the
provision of universal secondary education, with male attrition exceeding female attrition.
The study finds that this has contributed not just to an under-qualified labour force
but to a reduction in the potential for a tertiary educated one. The gendered nature of
attrition is seen to be consistent across different indicators of educational outcomes and
across different strata of society. It is argued that this is a symptom of critical deficits in
the classroom. The over-correction in gender imbalance in education has not improved
women’s position in society relative to other countries. Unless educational reform policies
are directed at the black box that generates learning in the classroom, Malaysia will find it
difficult to maintain its competitiveness in the world economy.
Affiliation:
- University of Michigan, United States
- University of Malaya, Malaysia
- University of Malaya, Malaysia
- University of Malaya, Malaysia
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