Globally-Recognised Certification Matters
Competing and succeeding beyond borders - this is the new age recipe to attain sustainable success for Malaysia in an era dominated by globalisation and highly robust digital connectivity.
As a nation truly blessed with many advantages including abundant natural resources, pleasant tropical climate, diversified cultures and peace loving people led by a visionary government, the way forward for us to enjoy continued economic growth and prosperity is by elevating the standards of our human capital, our most valuable asset, to a level where it is both accepted and recognised beyond our borders.
In a knowledge economy era where we are at present, success of private sector businesses and enterprises which forms the backbone of the nation's economy, is largely dependent on the quality of manpower that it employs and/or associates with for the purposes of planning, executing, marketing and developing saleable commercial ideas.
Recognising the need of the present and future economic growth which hinges on the quality of our certified human capital in a variety of specialised fields, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) through Standards Malaysia, is fully focussed on the agenda of promoting awareness on the importance of being certified skilled workers and professionals, amongst Malaysians at large.
Role Of Standards Malaysia
Standards Malaysia is the National Standards Body and the National Accreditation Body, which strives to instill confidence among various stakeholders, through credible standardisation and accreditation services to enable Malaysia to rise to the top spot in terms of nations with clear, demonstrated global competitiveness.
Standards Malaysia spearheads the Standards Component of the Strategic Reform Initiatives-Competition Standards & Liberalisation (SRI-CSL) under the Economic Transformation Programme, to primarily enhance the quality of Malaysian products and services for both the nation as well as the world.
Certified Skilled Workers and Professionals A National Agenda
Clearly at a time when today's technology becomes a thing of the past by next day, the truly invaluable asset that we as a nation must continue to invest in is the upholding of person certification of our diversely qualified human capital from across Malaysia. Within this context, MOSTI's priority focus goes towards the Competition, Standards and Liberalisation (CSL) under the national's SRIs.
ASEAN Region Reach
Leveraging on the leadership role that Malaysia plays within the ASEAN set-up, MOSTI is also working on a number of initiatives which would potentially allow certified and skilled local manpower to gain easy employment in fellow member ASEAN nations.
MOSTI is presently in pursuit of making the ASEAN free movement of skilled workers agenda a reality in the near future, which will be significantly beneficial to Malaysia as a key member nation as it paves the way for our world class human capital who are certified to explore vast opportunities within this bustling region.
Daily Express Newspaper 24 July 2016
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