Making the Gap Year a Reality: Six Issues for Consideration

Authors

  • Doria Abdullah

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2017.89.9837

Keywords:

Gap year, public university, Malaysia, higher education

Abstract

Starting in 2017, Malaysia has introduced the gap year for students in public universities, where they are given the option to take a year off for industrial training, pursue their interests in the arts, or work on volunteering projects. The intention is for the students to gain exposure, discover their potential and develop intellectually. How might the country make the gap year a meaningful experience for its students? This article offers six issues for consideration.

Author Biography

Doria Abdullah

Doria Abdullah is postdoctoral fellow at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
(UTM) and associate at the Observatory on Borderless
Higher Education (OBHE).

Downloads

Published

2017-04-15

How to Cite

Abdullah, D. (2017). Making the Gap Year a Reality: Six Issues for Consideration. International Higher Education, (89), 13–14. https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2017.89.9837

Issue

No. 89 (2017): Spring 2017

Section

International

License

Copyright (c) 2017 International Higher Education

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

    1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
    3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
    4. Authors will be required to sign our standard License Ageement before publication.

A Word document containing the License Agreement is available for download here.