Factors that contribute to obesity problem among UTHM catering student

Negative perception by the society and the hospitality industry toward the disabled people is very high and it has to be changed and this parties should be given opportunity to work in this industry. Rosli, et al (2011) states the acceptance in the small and medium industries towards the disabled is at moderate level. However, in 2005, Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (KPTM) has initiated Polytechnic Ibrahim Sultan, Johor Bahru conduct a pioneer program to produce graduates with disabilities (OKU) with hearing impairments for a career in the hotel industry. Related to the situation, some lecturers were sent to attend sign language courses for the preparation for the program, some facilities were updated to fit their needs. To this present Polytechnic Ibrahim Sultan, Johor Bahru has produced hundreds of OKU graduates. It is hope that the graduates produced from this program could reduce the number of foreign worker working in the industry. Dependence on foreign workers should be reduced because there are almost 2.6 million people with special needs in Malaysia. Some of them have been able to pursue their studies to diploma and Bachelor degrees. Through the development of education they are participated in, it is hoped that they will also contribute to the country's economy. The Government of Malaysia is in the effort to transform employers' perceptions towards this group to be more positive. Thus, several initiatives or benefits had been made by the Government of Malaysia to attract more government link companies (GLC) and private firms to hire people from this group. However there are also some challenges and obstacles faced by the industry in accepting these graduates at their company. Taheing (1996) states that in its study it has been able to identify problems that limit the employment of disabled persons including physiological factors, disability due to defects, occupational types, gender factors, workplace environment, personality, illness and other disabilities. This is a challenge and obstacle faced by the employer in hiring the disabled graduates in their industry. Therefore, the industry is highly concerned with the selection of highly capable employees in helping to increase profits to the company

The self-assessment of hospitality employment skills among vocational students in Malaysia

Malaysia needs high skilled workforce to support growth of the industry. With dynamically changing job market and progressive technological change, employees are expected to keep abreast of global economics. In the process of achieving the status of developed nation by the year 2020, Malaysia needs to restructure its workforce to ensure that middle level workers are highly skilled. Current job environment demands multi-task and skills. Thus, university graduates must be prepared to meet the demand especially in the hospitality industry. The purpose of this study is to identify the hospitality employability skills consist of fifteen elements of employability skills among vocational students in Malaysia. The objective of this study is to identify the level of hospitality employability skills among vocational students. This study also analyzed whether there are significant differences in the competency level of vocational students by gender. The research also identifies the differences of hospitality employability skills by location (rural and urban), examines the determinants of hospitality employability skills among bakery and culinary students separately, identifies differences between perceived importance and competency gained in employability skills among bakery and culinary students and examines the skills that are needed by students for entering the hospitality profession. This research applied quantitative and qualitative methodology. The respondents consist of final year students in bakery and culinary programme. Stratified sampling was used to select students in hospitality programs from 22 vocational colleges in Malaysia. Questionnaires were distributed to eight hundred forty one students in five regions in Malaysia. Interview was also conducted with ten vocational students in central region, Malaysia. Descriptive and inferential statistics such as T- test and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the quantitative data. The results showed that the level of hospitality employability skills among vocational students in Malaysia were at high level of competent and importance (93.2%). Findings also revealed that male students are more competent in hospitality employability skills compared to female students in vocational colleges. The result also provided evidence that rural students are more competent in hospitality employability skills compared to urban students in vocational colleges. The result found that the competence gained by bakery students in terms of employability skills is lower than the importance perceived by those students. The findings also showed that the competence gained by culinary students in terms of employability skills is lower than the importance perceived by those students

Employability skills for hospitality students in Malaysia

Malaysia needs high skilled workforce to support growth of the industry. With dynamically changing job market and progressive technological change, employees are expected to keep abreast of global economics. In the process of achieving the status of developed nation by the year 2020, Malaysia needs to restructure its workforce to ensure that middle level workers are highly skilled. Current job environment demands multi-task and skills. Thus, university graduates must be prepared to meet the demand especially in the hospitality industry. The purpose of this study is to identify the level of employability skills in the hospitality field. This research applied quantitative methodology. The respondents consist of final year students in bakery and culinary programme. Stratified sampling was used to select students in hospitality programs from 22 vocational colleges in Malaysia. Questionnaires were distributed to 841 students in five regions which are Central, South, North, East and East Malaysia (Sarawak) in Malaysia. Descriptive analysis was used to analyse the quantitative data. The results showed that the level of hospitality employability skills among vocational students in Malaysia were at high level of competence (93.2%). The research has brought meaningful implications for hospitality vocational students, employers and policy makers

Penggunaan Komputer di Kalangan Guru-Guru Sains di Daerah Hulu Langat: Satu Kajian Status

'Multimedia Super Coridor' atau ringkasan MSC merupakan matlamat negara ke arah pencapaian Wawasan 2020. Adakah kita bersedia untuknya? Adakah guru-guru Sains di sekolah-sekolah Malaysia sudah bersedia ke arah mewujudkan suatu generasi pelajar yang dinamik dan 'celik komputer' untuk menempuh milinium yang akan datang? Ini adalah kerana terdapat di kalangan guru-guru Sains yang masih menggunakan kaedah lama dalam menjajankan tugas-tugas pengajaran dan pembelajaran. Semua guru-guru Sains di lima buah sekolah di Daerah Hulu Langat telah dipilih sebagai bahan kajian dengan memfokuskan kajian khusus terhadap tahap penggunaan komputer di kalangan mereka. Sebanyak 62 borang soal selidik telah diedarkan dan daripada ini sebanyak 56 responden telah memberikan jawapan. Soal selidik yang dikemukakan ini ada1ah merupakan suatu pengubahsuaian soal selidik yang telah diperolehi melalui kajian-kajian lepas. Kajian yang dijalankan ini adalah berbentuk kajian deskriptif dan analisis data telah dibuat menggunakan perisian SPSS 7.5 serta dibentangkan daJam bentuk kekerapan, peratus dan min. Secara keseluruhannya, hasil kajian. menunjukkan tahap penggunaan komputer di kalangan guru-guru Sains di Daerah Huiu Langat adalah di tahap yang rendah. Peratusan yang rendah terhadap penggunaan komputer ini memperlihatkan akan kurangnya aksessibiliti komputer kepada guru-guru Sains di sekolah-sekolah di Daerah Hulu Langat. Hasil kajian juga mendapati tujuan utama guru-guru Sains menggunakan komputer adalah untuk tujuan 'pemprosesan perkataan' seperti membuat soalan peperiksaan (95.6%), surat rasmi (73.3%) dan membuat nota pelajaran (60.0%). Penggunaan komputer sebagai alat bantu mengajar masih kurang ditekankan oleh guru-guru Sains. Bilangan guru-guru Sains yang menggunakan komputer untuk tujuan pengurusan juga adalah masih di tahap yang rendah. Walaubagaimanapun, gwu-guru Sains mempunyai pendapat dan pandangan yang positif terbadap penggunaan komputer di sekolah. Ini menunjukkan bahawa guru-guru Sains adalah golongan yang peka kepada keperluan komputer di dalam proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran khususnya dalam era teknologi. maklumat ini

Gender of transformational school principals and teachers’ innovative behavior

The purpose of this paper is to examine the different levels of transformational leadership between male and female principals and their relationships with teachers' Innovative Work Behavior (IWB) in Malaysian secondary schools. In total, 477 teachers from various secondary schools were randomly selected as respondents (218 are working under female principals, while 259 of them are under male principals). This study revealed that the respondents agree that male principals practice transformational leadership higher than female principals. However, the female principals were highly influential on the teachers’ IWB compared to their male counterparts. This study provides a glimpse of the teachers' innovative behavior improvement resulted from transformational leadership by male and female school principals

A Kinetic Study on the Esterification of Palmitic Acid in Methanol

The esterification of palmitic acid in excess methanol using thionyl chloride as catalyst has been investigated. It was found that SOCl2 behaved as a good esterification catalyst. The methyl palmitate product obtained has been analysed and characterized using gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Optimization studies to determine' the weight percent of catalyst to acid, temperature and time to produce maximum yield of product have also been carried out. The optimum conditions were found to be 0.3% weight of catalyst to acid, 80°C and 2 hours. Subsequently, the rate constants at various temperatures and activation energy of the system were calculated

Perception and acceptance of traditional Bugis food in Parit Raja

Malaysia is a multiracial country comprising Malay, Chinese, Indian, Iban, Kadazan, Javanese, Bugis and many others. According to (Jamaludin & Ramli, 2018), the uniqueness of a plural society can be describe not only involving a multi-racial society. It is also color with a society of different beliefs and religions as well as different cultures. The transfer of a race occurs because it has its own history of how the entry of a certain race took place in this country. The transfer of a race occurs because it has its own history of how the entry of a certain race took place in this country. Bugis are a well- known ethnic in Indonesia from the archipelago of Sulawesi or Celebus island, which has an average population of three million people living in the southern part of the Sulawesi archipelago, (Ammarell, 2002). Bugis migration to Malaya, especially in Sabah, Selangor and Johor had long accepted

Discovering how lower grade university students spend their free time with media: The generation y scenario / Azniza Ahmad Zaini, Nor Aziah Abd Kadir and Mohd Zahid Laton

This study was conducted to discover how lower grade students of Generation Y at one higher education institution in the East Coast Malaysia spend their free time with media. It is crucial for educators and parents to understand the role of media in young people’s lives as media is among the most powerful forces in the young people’s lives today. Media is also able to influence the activities that Generation Y students are engaged in during their free time because they are born in the digital age. The respondents for the study were lower grade students from a public university in Malaysia. Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to the respondents and the sample was obtained using a non-probability sampling technique. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results from this study are hoped to provide educators and parents with valuable information on the impact of media on youths, specifically the lower grade students at higher education institution

Corporate Governance, Ownership Structure And Corporate Diversification: Evidence From The Malaysian Listed Companies

Previous research has contributed much to our understanding of the relationship between corporate diversification strategy and corporate governance quality. The majority of published works has been on sophisticated and mature markets in first world nations. This paper extends previous knowledge by examining this relationship in a developing country. Malaysia is a developing country that provides a rich setting for corporate governance research. The structure of the business environment and the availability of published data make it an interesting research sit

Identifying the Employment Skills Among Malaysian Vocational Students: An Analysis of Gender Differences

Employability and the creation of a knowledge-based economy have become fundamental concerns in many countries, including Malaysia. Realizing the need to achieve a high-income economy, the Malaysian Government through its Eleventh Malaysia Plan (2016-2020) is transforming Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) by enabling industry-led approach is crucial to produce skills human capital that meet the industry demand and support the migration of all economic sectors towards knowledge intensive activities, in line with the aspiration to become a high-income nation by 2020. Technical and Vocational Education can play a major role in providing future workforce with employability skills. Therefore, the research aims to examine the differences in competency perceived level by gender for vocational students majoring in hospitality. Questionnaires were distributed to 841 hospitality students in five regions in Malaysia. Descriptive statistic and independent sample T-Test were used to analyse the data. The findings show that there is no significant difference between male and female. The mean score of male is higher than mean score of female. Thus, the result provides evident that male is more competent in hospitality employability skills compared to female student in vocational colleges. The findings provide insights to curriculum developers and policy makers on the appropriate interventions that need to be taken to improve the employability skills of the graduates. &nbsp