Lecturers perception of the soft skills of engineering students in Malaysian Polytechnics
Soft skill is one of the skills needed by graduates to be effective and efficient as the preparation to joining the working environment apart from technical skills. Lack of skills among graduates reported as a reason for employers uninterested to hire them. Therefore, this study was conducted to exp...
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Global Illuminators Publishing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6854/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/6854/1/Lectures_perception_of_the_soft_skills_of_engineering_students_in_malaysian_polytechnics.pdf |
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| Summary: | Soft skill is one of the skills needed by graduates to be effective and efficient as the preparation to joining the
working environment apart from technical skills. Lack of skills among graduates reported as a reason for
employers uninterested to hire them. Therefore, this study was conducted to explore the application of soft
skills of engineering students in Malaysian polytechnic based on lecturers’ perception. Questionnaire was
distributed to 475 lecturers from selected polytechnics and was analysed using descriptive statistics. Finding
show that soft skills level of engineering student was high and lecturers state that teamwork skills was the
highest soft skills applied by students. This study also found that there is no significant difference of soft skills
level of student based on engineering courses and region.The high level of soft skills applied by engineering
student should be maintained to increase the employment rate of engineering graduates. |
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