Issues and Challenges of Entrepreneurship Education in Malaysia

This research is a program evaluation of an entrepreneurial education in public and private higher education institution in Malaysia. Among the problems of the Entrepreneurial Education face by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia as stated in Entrepreneurship Development Policy for Higher Education Institution (HEI) is the lack of mechanisms for quality, effectiveness and impact measurement. This study aims to evaluate what are the issues and challenges in the implementation of entrepreneurship education practices by Higher Education Institution (HEI) in Malaysia. There are two higher institutions involved in this research, University Teknologi Mara (UiTM) and International Islamic College (IIC). Both institution offer Bachelor of Entrepreneurship and have more than one cohort of students graduated. This study adopts qualitative approach utilizing case study method. The collection techniques included semi-structure interview, document analysis and observation. This study focuses on entrepreneurial program at public and private Higher Education Institution (HEI) and it contributes to the present literature on the real phenomena of entrepreneurship education in this country, specifically focusing the actual issues and challenges which relates to the monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the entrepreneurship education programs faced by the Ministry of Higher Education and the Higher Education Institutions in Malaysia.