Malaysia Education Ministry signs MoU with UK’s Institute of Motor Industry to provide training in hybrid and electric vehicle maintenance

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Malaysia’s Ministry of Education has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the UK’s Institute of Motor Industry (IMI). Central to the MoU is the delivery of training support across a network of community colleges in Malaysia to enhance the skills of automotive professionals, particularly on the subject of hybrid and electric vehicles.

“The MoU with the Malaysia Ministry of Education is to train candidates on hybrid and electric vehicles, utilising a network of community colleges, with a target of training 1,000 candidates in the next 12 months,” said IMI CEO Steve Nash.

“The Malaysian government has called for the country’s retail motor industry to upgrade the skills and capabilities of its workforce to support the growth potential of the sector. And this is particularly focussed on hybrid and electric vehicles which, with their tax-free advantages in Malaysia, have grown significantly in the last few years, as evidenced by the fact that there are now more than 20,000 such vehicles on the country’s roads.”

The MoU was announced at Malaysia’s Life Long Learning Carnival at the end of 2013 as part of the launch of a technology centre for hybrid and electric vehicles. Through its partnership with IMI Awards, IMI believes it can give local training providers the very best qualifications and accreditations for their candidates, while guaranteeing the quality of trainers, equipment, as well as internal and external verification.

“Malaysia’s automotive industry has a strong existing workforce and has the talent to grow by leaps and bounds,” said Nash. “But it is critical that this workforce is equipped to handle the emerging technologies that are being adopted across the sector. By helping employees to upgrade their skills and capabilities through IMI qualifications and accreditations, Malaysia’s retail motor industry stands to gain from an empowered workforce.”

The full import and excise duty exemption for electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles with engines displacing under 2.0 litres has just expired with the end of 2013, following no update on the matter throughout the year. Many, including industry players, are waiting with bated breath for the announcement of the latest revision of the National Automotive Policy (NAP 2014), expected to happen later this month, to know what happens next. More details here.

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  • [“The Malaysian government has called for the country’s retail motor industry to upgrade the skills and capabilities of its workforce to support the growth potential of the sector. And this is particularly focussed on hybrid and electric vehicles which, with their tax-free advantages in Malaysia, have grown significantly in the last few years…..]

    The primary growth of the hybrid and EV cars are because they can be imported relatively cheaply while having international standards in safety and refinement to the wins of the general markets and car distributor, as to the sense as they can comfortably raise their profit margin by increasing the low price so that it will not affect locally assembled ICE-engine cars that are lower spec and unable to enjoy a lower price. So the government is willing to support this growth by pushing the skills and capabilities of local workshops but not giving a solid news on extending this tax-sorta-exemptions on which is the primary source that fueled this growth…..huh?

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    • SamShowedMeTheHilux on Jan 08, 2014 at 2:19 pm

      What happened to the MAI donkeys? They should be doing this instead of sitting with their fat pays and promoting EEV nonsense. Gomen, close down MAI lah. Waste money only have MAI when they do zero.

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  • Sam Mistress on Jan 07, 2014 at 1:41 pm

    Most likely the training will be how to get fat and how to tampal balakong sticker on car. Malaysia Boleh.

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    • armandd on Jan 07, 2014 at 3:31 pm

      Your mindset is very ‘anti-establishment’. People like you are one of the reason our country’s progress & development is very slow compared to other developing countries. I suggest you pack your belongings and migrate somewhere else.

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      • BNsuck on Jan 07, 2014 at 8:29 pm

        Look lke you are one of those bn supporter or cronies. Everything also tak suka boleh keluar.

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      • Asam Lu on Jan 08, 2014 at 10:15 pm

        Ada aku kesah

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      • BN Sux on Jan 09, 2014 at 1:19 pm

        This is what BN and Cronies always do,

        1) Find an excuse to travel to far far away land with various incentives
        2) Send ONLY bumi candidates there
        3) pretend to do something productive
        4) Come back and talk some cock
        5) Close shop after spending tax payers money

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  • kah kah kah on Jan 07, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    songlap lagi..

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  • Robin on Jan 07, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    Brighter future for TOC atudents.

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  • abuya123 on Jan 07, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    When ministry do nothing, you complaint. When ministry embark new project, you complaint.

    This is a path to increase more human capital. Many of school graduate who have no chance to university, they can opt to learn joint venture institute like BMI, GMI, MFI and etc. And guess what…. many of them received opportunity go further study abroad even work permanently there. And you including me who graduate local university still hanging in this country…. work here. Complaint why income not similar to UK, fuel price not similar to UAE, why car price not similar to Saudi Arabia, why no free education like Finland bla bla bla………

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  • sudonano on Jan 07, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    out of curiosity, now since the NAP still has not been announced, what happens to all the hybrid cars on sale? Are they sold with the import duty etc, or still at last year’s price?

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  • y with uk? Y not with japan? Japan know how to produce more efficient and durable technologies.

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    • chinpeng on Jan 07, 2014 at 8:32 pm

      Dont you know all this govt cronies love to go europeor uk. Go japan no gaya. Go uk can post in fb and let all their kampung folks envy.

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  • EnergyAnalyst on Jan 07, 2014 at 6:05 pm

    Again this is merely MOU.

    If you count the amount of MOU that eventually did not take off, you will be disheartened too. Nonetheless the NAP concerning EEV will be the deciding factor for whether this MOU will really be turned into real action

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  • rashidee hussien on Jan 07, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    Do we need so many officials from the Ministry of Education in UK just to sign a MOU ?
    Free holiday cum shopping with business class
    travel all with compliments from duit rakyat !!
    Melawat sambil belajar konon !!

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    • Keris Jawa on Jan 07, 2014 at 9:15 pm

      Let this be a lesson to ALL the government staff. Only release formal photos where a handful appears. Otherwise… Well, opinions are like a**holes, everybody’s got one…

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      • Low Budget on Jan 08, 2014 at 10:00 am

        You never know for sure, some of them might have family members right now shopping in Oxford street while their parents and spouse are busying signing papers and take official group photos.

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  • It was written that there were 20,000 EV on Malaysia road. Are you sure, Mr Jonathan Tan? Where do you pluck that figure from?

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    • EnergyAnalyst on Jan 08, 2014 at 10:43 am

      Do read again : that figure includes hybrid too

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      • The actual news is about training on EV & Plug-In-Hybrid (PHEV). Not the Parallel Hybrid. So,it wasn’t right if you include the parallel hybrid into the calculation. It’s like u tell the public on the number of NGV when you are talking about biofuel. It’s two different things all together. :-)

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        • EnergyAnalyst on Jan 08, 2014 at 10:20 pm

          You have a point but I bet some one need to educate this point to the ministry of education? The irony….

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  • 8 staff are needed to sign an agreement or may be more?. If 1 ticket lets say rm10k, we already loss rm80k . Nearly RM 100k just for flight ticket. Belum kira accomodation,other transportation lagi. extremely membazir. I think for this trip, they had been used our money around rm300k at least..

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    • darkermarker on Jan 08, 2014 at 9:38 am

      one staff for holding a pen.
      one staff for talking
      one staff for carrying a bag
      one staff might for language translation

      and the remaining for are for back-up if the above four staffs were on cuti-sakit….

      hihihihihi

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    • Low Budget on Jan 08, 2014 at 9:55 am

      Its OK lah bradder! Much much cheaper than money burnt in cow farm.

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    • EnergyAnalyst on Jan 08, 2014 at 10:49 am

      8 Malaysian with one mr Nash and at the end of the day, the announcement plus statements are all made by UK IMI CEO mr Steve Nash and no statement from these 8 Ministry of Education gang? LOL

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      • SamTowTruck on Jan 08, 2014 at 1:56 pm

        Apa statement, our ministry england english also fail. F9 can become distinction level.

        Better to keep quiet and go shopping kat oxford street and post kat instagram….”kami kat UK. Sejuknya…syok gila.”

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      • Asam Lu on Jan 08, 2014 at 10:18 pm

        Ada aku kesah

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  • longjaafar on Jan 08, 2014 at 11:27 am

    One of those junkets….after all, it’s the shopping season.

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  • Visitor on Jan 08, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    On the positive note, this should be good news for hybrid/EV car owners, as they don’t need to go all the way to officially designated service centres (i.e. Toyota, Honda, etc…), because if the graduates are entrepreneurialistic enough, they can start off their own repair centres that also services hybrid/EV cars.

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  • Steve Kok on Jan 08, 2014 at 8:39 pm

    Wasting rakyat’s money

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  • KangKung Man on Feb 04, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    Lar! Makan Angin lagi … Come back … took ages to see something – that if can see something came out from them.

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