A Deeper Lecturer and Student View of a Sustainable Learning Requirement in Tertiary Education in Malaysia A sub-study of a university development research in Private Higher Education in Malaysia

The landscape of higher education is in an unstoppable process of changes. A new generation of students are entering universities, who are expecting lecturers to “spoon feed” them with knowledge, as they experienced during their school life. In addition, students see education as the process of obtaining to pass examinations. On the other hand, the lecturers’ approach is also changing; more industrial experts are joining universities to work together with traditional lecturers in Malaysia, who come with different student expectations. Generally they expect students to be selfdriven and independent, as employees of the industry, but today’s students do not possess these abilities. This is what the paper looks at as an educational development perspective in Private Higher Education in Malaysia to look on both sides, that is understanding teaching and learning and trying to show how lecturers’ expectation and students’ need are more similar than ever expected before.

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