Nationwide lockdown, population density, and financial distress brings inadequacy to manage covid-19: leading the services sector into the trajectory of global depression

The service industry provides distributive services, producer services, personal services, and social services. These services largely breakdowns due to restrictions on border movements, confined travel and transportation services, a decline in international tourists’ visitation, nationwide lock-downs, and maintaining social distancing in the population. Although these measures are highly needed to contain coronavirus, it decreases economic and financial activities in a country, which re-quires smart solutions to globally subsidize the services sector. The study used different COVID-19 measures, and its resulting impact on the services industry by using world aggregated data from 1975 through 2020. The study benefited from the Keynesian theory of aggregate demand that re-mains provided a solution to minimize economic shocks through stringent or liberalizing economic policies. The COVID-19 pandemic is more severe than the financial shocks of 2018 that affected almost all sectors of the globalized world, particularly the services sector, which has been severally affected by COVID-19; it is a high time to revisit economic policies to control pandemic recession. The study used quantiles regression and innovation accounting matrix to obtain ex-ante and ex-post analysis. The quantile regression estimates show that causes of death by communicable diseases, including COVID-19, mainly decline the share of services value added to the global GDP at different quantiles distribution. In contrast, word-of-mouth helps to prevent it from the transmission channel of coronavirus plague through information sharing among the general masses. The control of food prices and managing physical distancing reduces suspected coronavirus cases; however, it negatively affects the services sector’s value share. The smart lockdown and sound economic activities do not decrease coronavirus cases, while they support increasing the percentage of the services sector to the global GDP. The innovation accounting matrix suggested that smart lockdown, managing physical distancing, effective price control, and sound financial activities will help to reduce coronavirus cases that will further translate into increased services value-added for the next ten years. The social distancing will exert a more considerable variance error shock to the services industry, which indicates the viability of these measures to contained novel coronavirus over a time horizon. The study used the number of proxies to the COVID-19 measures on the service sector that can be continued with real-time variables to obtain more inferences

Pembentukan Kemahiran Kepimpinan Guru Pelatih melalui Latihan Mengajar

Kajian ini merupakan satu tinjauan bagi mengenal pasti pembentukan kemahiran kepimpinan melalui latihan mengajar. Kemahiran kepimpinan terdiri daripada tiga kemahiran asas iaitu kemahiran teknikal, kemahiran interpersonal dan kemahiran konseptual. Kajian ini juga turut mengkaji hubungan pembentukan kemahiran kepimpinan dengan kursus pengajian dan mengenal pasti perbezaan pembentukan kemahiran kepimpinan yang dilaksanakan di sekolah di kawasan luar bandar dan sekolah di kawasan bandar. Kajian ini dijalankan melalui kaedah tinjauan dengan menggunakan borang soal selidik. Manakala, populasi yang terlibat ialah pelajar dari Fakulti Pendidikan, UTM. Analisa dapatan kajian ini menggunakan SPSS 17.0 secara deskriptif dan inferensi. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa pembentukan kemahiran kepimpinan melalui latihan mengajar adalah tinggi iaitu 85.4%. Bagi hasil statistik inferensi pula menunjukkan tidak terdapat hubungan yang signifikan terhadap pembentukan kemahiran kepimpinan melalui latihan mengajar dan tidak terdapat sebarang perbezaan yang signifikan terhadap hubungan antara pembentukan kemahiran kepimpinan pelajar melalui latihan mengajar dengan lokasi di sekolah bandar dan di sekolah luar bandar. Kesimpulannya, semua elemen kemahiran kepimpinan mampu dibentuk melalui latihan mengajar dan ditambahbaik dari semasa ke semasa

Planning in producing an entrepreneurial framework for culinary students

The plan to create an entrepreneurial framework for culinary students is a process that provides additional information to support the background of the problem and provide a clear picture for future research needs. It was a preliminary study involving 4 respondents consisting of culinary graduates from public and private institutions of higher education in Johor Bahru who had worked in various sectors. The study was a qualitative study and analyzed using thematic analysis to determine appropriate themes. Interview protocols were used to make the interviews more structured and to achieve the purpose of the study as well as produce clear information. Therefore, this study aims to reinforce the need for developing an entrepreneurial framework for culinary students

Preliminary study on the prominent entrepreneurial skills set in the context of civil engineering practice

Despite the fact that the importance of acquiring entrepreneurial skills for future engineers has been widely discussed, yet the specific prominent entrepreneurial skills set with respect to a specific context of interest were often left unexplained. A similar phenomenon has occurred in the context of engineering practice and possibly implying that the prominent entrepreneurial skills set in the context of civil engineering practice still remain illdefined. As the need for engineers to acquire entrepreneurial skills to meet the economic and workforce requirements has been widely recognised, thus identifying the prominent entrepreneurial skills set in the context of civil engineering practice is very important. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the prominent entrepreneurial skills set in the context of civil engineering practice in reference to the recommendations by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This preliminary study was conducted by having interviews with civil engineering practitioners and thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. The findings have shown the prominent skills in the entrepreneurial skill set are mostly acquired in the managerial tracks in the civil engineering practice

Capturing creative behaviours in computer aided designing using design diaries

Designing often involves uncertain period of times before arriving at its attainment. In the context of research, an appropriate longitudinal data collection method is vital in facilitating data gathering activities such as a design diary. This article reports a study which aimed to identify and capture creative behaviours based on a Creative Behaviours Framework whilst designing using Computer Aided Design (CAD). A design diary was used to facilitate participants in recording creative behaviours occurrences when they were using CAD for designing. This method enabled the researcher to obtain information from participants' CAD design activities throughout the design project phase. This study involved three participants who were postgraduate students of Industrial Design and Technology, Loughborough University. The participants were invited and recruited based on two factors: they had a CAD background and had the intention of using CAD in their final year undergraduate design project. Combination of a structured and open format diary were used as the data collection and in this study known as the design diary. The data were analysed by identifying the frequency of each creative behaviour was reported by the participant. From the analysis it was found that 125 creative behaviours descriptors were recorded. The findings also suggested that CAD potentially encouraged creative behaviours amongst its users

Transforming technical and vocational education and training education in Malaysia: issues and challenges

Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) is increasingly being recognised as one of the drives for economic and social growth. TVET provides an avenue for less academically inclined students to acquire skills and knowledge needed in order to join the job market who are able to contribute positively to the community. TVET therefore can assist individuals to improve their lives by providing practical competencies that help enhance productivity at work. This paper provides an overview and analysis of the Malaysia TVET transformation programs, governance issues, as well as challenges faced in the development of the TVET sector. A total of 10 published documents related to TVET, with 5 specifically related to TVET in Malaysia were reviewed. This paper summarizes the findings based on the papers reviewed

Application of Soft Skills Among Prospective TVET Teachers to Face the Industrial Revolution 4.0

The development of Malaysia's social and economic capital depends on the younger generation as a result of the country's education system. Education is also the trigger for creativity and the generator of innovation that equips the younger generation with the skills needed to compete in the job market and enable overall economic development. In this regard, in the national education system, teachers play a role as human builders to produce a younger generation in meeting the needs of the ethical industry revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0). Thus, a quantitative study was conducted on final year students who took TVET education programs at IPTAs in Malaysia to review the readiness and knowledge of the soft skills of future TVET teachers to meet the challenges of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. A set of questionnaires containing 62 items including demographics of respondents using 5 Likert scales was constructed using the Google Form application and distributed to a total of 175 respondents. The findings of the study were analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 20 software to identify the mean, standard deviation, and Pearson's correlation coefficient. Overall, it was found that the level of readiness and acceptance of students towards IR 4.0 is still at a moderate level and there is a significant relationship between the level of students' knowledge of soft skills with the readiness of prospective TVET teachers to face the challenges of the Industrial Revolution 4.0