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Drivers of change in neoliberal politics-economics, capital flows, global cultural-politics, and the internationalization-regionalization of education, require apt and innovative responses from higher education (HE) stakeholders. This is essential in order to ensure that higher learning institutions (HLIs) play their roles in producing a workforce that is highly competent. Increasingly, there are calls for collaboration and information sharing between actors in HE and the workplace, where requirements on the new millennium workers are forcing a rethinking on ways of thinking, doing, teaching, and learning in universities.
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Rahman, S.A., Lie, K.Y. (2015). Graduate Competencies: Issues and Solutions of Graduate Employability in Malaysia. In: Neubauer, D.E., Ghazali, K. (eds) Technology and Workplace Skills for the Twenty-First Century. International and Development Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491923_11
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