Amendment Act · As enacted
Education (Amendment) Act 2015
Amends the Education Act 1996Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
This Act may be cited as the Education (Amendment)
Act 2015.
This Act is deemed to have come into operation on 1 January 2012.
s 2Amendment of section 2
The Education Act 1996 [Act 550], which is referred to as the “principal Act” in this Act, is amended in section 2—
by inserting after the definition of “upper secondary education” the following definitions:
“vocational college” means an educational institution established and fully maintained by the Minister under section 33a;
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“Vocational College Standard Curriculum” means the Vocational College Standard Curriculum prescribed under section 33b.”; and
in the English language text, in the definition of “upper secondary education”, by substituting for the full stop a semi-colon.
s 3New Chapter 5a
The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 33
the following Chapter:
“Chapter 5a – Vocational Colleges
Establishment and maintenance of vocational college 33a. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Minister may establish and fully maintain a vocational college.
A vocational college established under subsection (1)
shall provide technical and vocational education and training for pupils who have completed lower secondary education.
Vocational College Standard Curriculum to be used by vocational colleges 33b. The Minister shall prescribe a curriculum, to be known as the Vocational College Standard Curriculum, which shall be used by all vocational colleges.
Collaboration with other institution, corporation or industrial organization 33c. (1) A vocational college may collaborate with any institution, corporation or industrial organization for the purposes of—
implementing the Vocational College Standard
Curriculum;
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upgrading technical and vocational education and training of the pupils;
giving effect to the transfer of technology; and
carrying out any technical and vocational education and training considered desirable and beneficial to the vocational college or the pupils.
Any programme or training conducted in collaboration with an institution, corporation or industrial organization under subsection (1) shall use the Vocational College Standard
Curriculum.
Power to make regulations in relation to vocational colleges 33d. The Minister may make regulations for the carrying into effect of the provisions of this Chapter and without prejudice to the generality of such power, the regulations may provide for—
the Vocational College Standard Curriculum which shall include the knowledge, skills and values that are expected to be acquired by pupils at the end of the vocational education period;
the carrying out of evaluation or assessment and the conduct of examinations for vocational colleges by the Director of Examinations;
the award of certificates or diplomas;
the discipline of pupils, including the discipline and activity of pupils while undergoing a course of study, training or programme outside the vocational college;
the duration of semester of vocational colleges, the days on which and the hours during which pupils shall attend the vocational colleges and the days which shall be observed as holidays by all vocational colleges or any vocational colleges;
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the admission of pupils to a vocational college, the keeping of register of pupils, the age limit and conditions under which pupils may be retained in a vocational college or in any class in a vocational college;
the establishment, organization, management, control and dissolution of association of pupils of the vocational colleges;
any other matter as the Minister thinks expedient or necessary for the purpose of this Chapter.”.
s 4Amendment of section 35
Section 35 of the principal Act is amended—
in the shoulder note, by substituting for the words “Technical education” the words “Technical and vocational education and training”; and
in subsections (1) and (2), by substituting for the words
“technical education” the words “technical and vocational education and training”.
s 5Amendment of section 130
Subsection 130(2) of the principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph (v) the following paragraph:
“(va) the establishment, organization, management, control and dissolution of any council, body or committee for technical and vocational education and training;”.
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