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Determinants on student’s loan default: a study in Menara Maybank / Norellani Sukri
Get PDFEducation loan default is increasing by time in worldwide. Many students tend to borrow to pursue their studies in higher level of education. The higher the education level, the higher the amount of loan borrowed. According to Shafinar Ismail (2011), itis almost 50% cases of default rate of education loan in Malaysia. It portrayed that some graduates take no action in order to pay back their education loan. In this research, some variables will be test to determine the most determinants that affect the student loan default in Malaysia. The findings are of great relevance to the federal government that act as the fund agencies, to plan better for the loan advancement and recovery process once they really understand the main reason of default among students. The increase in recovery rate will bring in funds that can be lent to other new borrowers or used for strengthening the educational infrastructure (Shafinar Ismail,2011)
Critical success factors of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Melaka branch
No full textUniversities worldwide striving to excel in the management of academic achievements, student activities, research and industrial linkages need to scrutinize their critical success factors (CSFs). UiTM Melaka is not an exception. To achieve excellence, one of the key determinants is proper planning and initiatives in strategizing and systemizing the processes involved. The objectives of this paper are to discuss the practices and achievements of UiTM Melaka, and to identify its CSFs. The good practices are such as top-down commitment by the management, bottom-up involvement of staff from every level, cultivating and sharing culture in every program, continuous improvement in carrying out tasks and responsibilities, reward and recognition for outstanding staff and setting a long term goal in connecting the industry and community with academia. Those good practices have showed various promising results. For instance, UiTM Melaka has developed a proper procedure in appointing academic administrators, achieved the highest percentage of student voters among the 34 campuses, enhanced entrepreneurship development among students, secured the highest number of grants for social science, registered 60 product innovations with copyrights and commercialized seven products, published the first edition of consultants directory and generated more than RM200,000 from training and activities organized through memorandum of understandings. The achievements were obtained through CSFs of UiTM Melaka. The CSFs identified were (i) academic affairs administration(ii) student affairs administration(iii) entrepreneurship development(iv) research grant administration(v) invention, innovation and commercialization(vi) industrial linkages development and(vii) internationalization. The CSFs have truly encouraged its staff and students to build the university together. As such, adapting CSFs has aided the management to excel in achieving its goals
Selection criteria for Islamic home financing in Malaysia
No full textIslamic home financing over the ten year period showed an increasing rate from RM6.8 billion to RM23.3 billion. It is crucial to understand what are the factors that will determine the satisfaction of both Muslims and non-Muslims customer towards Islamic home financing. Therefore, this study investigates the important factors that influence selection of Islamic home financing among working adults in Malaysia. Questionnaires were distributed to the 160 employees in one financial institution. The sampling procedure adopted in this research was stratified random sampling. The questionnaire was designed in two sections, one consisting of demographic information and the second relating to the selection determinants of Islamic home financing. The result indicates that reputation, service quality, religious, media advertisement and social influence becomes the important factors that influence selection of Islamic home financing. Reputation is the best predictor as most of customers are confidents to select Islamic home financing because the Islamic bank has a good reputation and image. This research has been conducted in aggregate form. The study also refers to the employees in one financial institution. Future research could account for employees from other financial institution. The analyses presented in this research can be used by policymakers and managers as a guide to promote Islamic product and services. The study makes a contribution to the literature on Islamic banking in Malaysia. It is the first study to particularly investigate the home selection criteria in Malaysia. The findings achieved in this research will be of interest for practitioners and academics concerned with developments of the Malaysian Islamic banking industry
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Perkasa warga akademik UiTM CNS: Bengkel Penulisan Kertas Cadangan FRGS 2025 Gugusan Sains Sosial / Norliza Dzakaria ... [et al.]
No full textDalam usaha memperkukuh budaya penyelidikan dan meningkatkan keberkesanan permohonan geran penyelidikan, Bahagian Penyelidikan di bawah Timbalan Rektor Penyelidikan, Jaringan Industri, Masyarakat dan Alumni (PJIM&A), UiTM Cawangan Negeri Sembilan telah menganjurkan Bengkel Pemantapan Penulisan Kertas Cadangan Penyelidikan FRGS 2025 khusus bagi Gugusan Sains Sosial. Bengkel yang diadakan pada 29 November 2025 bertempat di Bilik Mesyuarat Klana Petra, Kampus Seremban ini membawa pendekatan yang lebih mendalam dan praktikal, dengan penampilan istimewa Prof. Ts. Dr. Shafinar Ismail daripada Fakulti Pengurusan Perniagaan, UiTM Kampus Bandaraya Melaka sebagai penceramah jemputan
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