Integration and Development of Generic Competencies into Malaysian
Higher Education Context: Review of the Literature
Abstract
The current review study has presented the challenges of developing and
implementing generic competencies in the context of higher education
institutions in general and Malaysian higher education in particular.
The results of the study revealed that institutional support and
commitments should be assigned to increase the awareness of generic
competencies and give more value to these skills to affect teachers’ and
students’ perception. Furthermore, implementing generic competencies
efficiently need enthusiasm and self-motivation of both teachers and
learners. However, due to lack of time teachers maintained that they
fail to teach generic competencies to cover the course subjects at
universities.