Cover Image

Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn

Vision 2020 is a goal which the country has set for itself - to join the ranks of industrialised countries by the year 2020. The Vision incorporates 9 challenges that the country must face in our quest to attain that status. Time would not permit me to discuss all the 9 challenges. This paper will t...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fong, Chan Onn
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 1992
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74163/1/74163.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74163/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.uitm.ir.74163
record_format eprints
spelling my.uitm.ir.741632023-09-05T00:25:08Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74163/ Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn Fong, Chan Onn Vision 2020 is a goal which the country has set for itself - to join the ranks of industrialised countries by the year 2020. The Vision incorporates 9 challenges that the country must face in our quest to attain that status. Time would not permit me to discuss all the 9 challenges. This paper will therefore discuss the basic issues of economy and the role of education. Vision 2020, amongst other things, is about industrialisation to put the Malaysian economy on a firm footing so that it is capable of competing with the best in the world and is dynamic and resilient enough to stand up to the test of time and situation. Education and manpower training will have to play a pivotal role in this ambition. Aside from the materialistic sense so to speak, Vision 2020 takes a step further. The Vision lays out the country's aim to create a balanced development ie. the materialistic versus the social, ethical and moral development. We do not want to be respected only for our economic prowess, but also for our high moral and ethical standards. Education, undoubtedly plays an integral part in the pursuit of these objectives. 1992 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74163/1/74163.pdf Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn. (1992) In: UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
institution Universiti Teknologi Mara
building Tun Abdul Razak Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider Universiti Teknologi Mara
content_source UiTM Institutional Repository
url_provider http://ir.uitm.edu.my/
language English
description Vision 2020 is a goal which the country has set for itself - to join the ranks of industrialised countries by the year 2020. The Vision incorporates 9 challenges that the country must face in our quest to attain that status. Time would not permit me to discuss all the 9 challenges. This paper will therefore discuss the basic issues of economy and the role of education. Vision 2020, amongst other things, is about industrialisation to put the Malaysian economy on a firm footing so that it is capable of competing with the best in the world and is dynamic and resilient enough to stand up to the test of time and situation. Education and manpower training will have to play a pivotal role in this ambition. Aside from the materialistic sense so to speak, Vision 2020 takes a step further. The Vision lays out the country's aim to create a balanced development ie. the materialistic versus the social, ethical and moral development. We do not want to be respected only for our economic prowess, but also for our high moral and ethical standards. Education, undoubtedly plays an integral part in the pursuit of these objectives.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Fong, Chan Onn
spellingShingle Fong, Chan Onn
Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn
author_facet Fong, Chan Onn
author_sort Fong, Chan Onn
title Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn
title_short Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn
title_full Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn
title_fullStr Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn
title_full_unstemmed Education and training towards achieving Vision 2020 / Fong Chan Onn
title_sort education and training towards achieving vision 2020 / fong chan onn
publishDate 1992
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74163/1/74163.pdf
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/74163/
_version_ 1776250543920906240
score 13.211869

Similar Items