Mara's Involvement In The Field Of Technical And Vocational

Mara higher skills college (kktm), mara japan industrial institute (mjii) and mara skills institute (ikm) are the best tvet institutions under mara in malaysia. This tvet mara institutional entity is under the monitoring and supervision of the skills and technical division (bkt) of mara. 

As a tvet educational institution with more than 5 decades of experience, kktm, mjii and ikm have contributed greatly to the country in producing competent industry-based human capital and successful technopreneurs in line with the country's industrial needs. This at the same time makes this tvet institution a global identity that is highly respected and admired. 

The establishment of ikm is to produce human capital that is based on industry as well as technopreneurs who are successful in line with the needs of the country. Since the establishment of the first institution in melaka in 1968, ikm has grown and now has 14 campuses across the country, while programs that focus on high technology are driven by the mara higher skills college which now has 10 campuses and one campus which is mara japan industrial institute (mjii). From what was originally known as a "craftsman's school" during the rida era, which was a training center that produced skilled workers in a certain field, mara skills education continues to evolve by offering training in line with the demands of the industry and the needs of the country's economic development. 

Mara's involvement in the field of technical and vocational education (tvet) is a continuation from the days of rida where mara's efforts to establish ikm at the end of the 60s and six more in the 70s can be described as the trigger for the existence of technical education based on industry needs. However, mara's main challenge at that time was not just the difficulty of developing the earliest skill-based educational institution, but more than that was to change the paradigm of bumiputera youth in the early decades of independence.