Hazri Jamil

Decision making behaviour of Malaysian polytechnics students and its relationship with educational choice on TVET (decision making behaviour and educational choice on TVET)

The purpose of this paper is to provide information and in depth comprehension related to the research findings on the educational choice on TVET among Malaysian polytechnics students in terms of program enrolled and their decision making behaviour. The decision making behaviour studied consists of two variables which are satisficing and maximizing. There are 643 students from three conventional Malaysian polytechnics who participated in this study. The study employed a self administered questionnaire measuring the mentioned variables. Descriptive test, independent sample t test and rank biserial correlation were conducted on the data analysis. The results suggest that there are weak relationships between the educational choice in terms of program enrolled and decision making behaviour in terms of satisficing and maximizing among Malaysian polytechnics students.

Teachers-student Relationship and Its Relation with Student Learning Commitment: Do Quality Teacher Make a Different Learning between Student Genders?

The objective of this research was to identify the students entrepreneurial career aspirations in the public instituitions of higher education. The research also was designed to determine the factors that influence the entrepreneurial career aspirations of the students. A set of questionaires were distributed to 420 respondents from three universities namely, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Islamic International University of Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The findings showed majority of the students were not interested to become entrepreneur eventhough more than 80 percent of them have positive attitude towards entrereneurship. Profit-orientation factor and the needs to have a successful life are the dominant factors that influenced the students towards entrepreneurial career. However, the entrepreneurial characteristics of the students was high, except for the willingness to take risks. The finding also showed that there are a positive and significant correlations between entrepreneurial characteristics, interest towards entrepreneurial career and attitude towards students entrepreneurial career aspirations. These findings concluded that races, educational fields and family members are considered as the factors that contributed to the students entrepreneurial career aspirations. Based on the findings, several ways are suggested to inspire the entrepreneurial career among the students in the public higher education. Therefore, the students, the universities, lecturers, the ministry, parents and the public are resposible in realizing and believing that the entrepreneurial career is a career option once graduated.