Thursday, February 20, 2014

Malaysian Qualification Framework

Today 20 Feb 2014, I was attending the pedagogy course at my school. This is one of the course made compulsory for all new staff.

One of the topic that I learned was on the MQF, Malaysian Qualification Framework.

The details are given at the official government site... http://www.mqa.gov.my/portal2012/dokumen/MALAYSIAN%20QUALIFICATIONS%20FRAMEWORK_2011.pdf



  You can see that the qualification is divided into 2 groupings, the Vocational and Technical against the Higher Education. The Vocational Education is under the Ministry of Human Resource and the other is under the ministry of education. It does appear to me that the acceptance for the Vocational Training is dwindling. My school was under the vocational before it decided to change to become a higher educational institution.   

Monday, February 3, 2014

Maintaining ATO Status

Our school is an approved ATO under Part 147, under the Malaysian Department of Civil Aviation.

We are preparing for the annual audit. The followings are the main areas of concern, that we are going to focus on. It is based of the findings of the earlier audits, both internal as external.



The issues are:

1. Aligning the MQA process to syllabus of part 66.
There are three elements here,
- first, the DCAM requirements as stated under the part 66 requirements. (similar to EASA part 66.
- second, the MQA requirements as detailed in the Malaysian universities' requiremets and
- The school processes and procedure.

The part 66 is given in the published documents AN 1101, in Jan 2010.  It contains the syllabus and other details required to conduct the courses. As our school is also approved under the MQA, the Malaysia Quality Agency entrusted to control the standard of education in Malaysia, requiring us to meet the requirements from two authorities.