This article aims at inter alia highlighting some important legal issues pertaining to Takaful agents in Malaysia. With the Takaful industry transcending the conventional insurance market locally and globally, Takaful agents have become an important tool in the recent development in the Takaful industry. Hence, the discussion will touch on the legal and Shari_ah position and the rights and liabilities of the Takaful agents parallel to promote and protect and maintain Takaful agents. This article fills that gap by providing specific recommendations regarding to Takaful agents in the Takaful industry. This article is intended to outline a more realistic and nuanced view, based on law and Shari_ah analytical techniques. It is intended to suggest the reasons why legal framework could be an appropriate platform to determine these issues on Takaful agents. Insofar as the current law_s definition of Takaful agent was ambiguity. Yet, there is no legal framework solely supervises the Takaful ag.....

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The aim of the study is to examine the alignment among senior high school English curriculum standards, textbooks, and college entrance examination papers in Mainland China. It employs corpus linguistics software (LancsBox, Sketch Engine, Voyant Tools) and Porter's SEC Model. The study analyzes the high school English curriculum standards, high school English textbooks (seven volumes), and college entrance examination English test papers (2018-2022). Findings indicate that the high school English curriculum standard, high school English textbooks and college entrance examination English test papers are relatively consistent in terms of vocabulary scope, and the overall content scope meets the alignment requirements. The four elements related to the high school English curriculum standards, high school English textbooks, and college entrance examination English test papers in this study are (1) Keywords, (2) Lexical density, (3) Readability, and (4) Alignment index. Based on the finding.....

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Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk menguji kesan strategi pembelajaran berasaskan pembelajaran generatif melalui pembelajaran kolaboratif terhadap pencapaian murid bagi tajuk Transformasi Isometri serta menentukan tahap motivasi murid selepas mengikuti pembelajaran menggunakan strategi ini. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk kuasi eksperimen kumpulan kawalan tak setara, di mana kumpulan rawatan (25 orang murid) diajar menggunakan Rancangan Pengajaran Harian berasaskan pembelajaran generatif melalui pembelajaran kolaboratif (RPH-PGK) manakala kumpulan kawalan (20 orang murid) diajar menggunakan Rancangan Pengajaran Harian kaedah konvensional. Instrumen yang digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah Ujian Pencapaian bagi Tajuk Transformasi Isometri (UPTI) dan Soal Selidik Motivasi Murid (SSMM) yang mengandungi 30 item. Pemilihan sampel dijalankan secara persampelan rawak berkelompok melibatkan murid Tingkatan 2 di sebuah sekolah di daerah Muallim, Perak. Kajian ini telah berjaya membangunkan Rancang.....

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Under the Economic Transformation Program (ETP), three sub-sectors of National Key Economic Areas (NKEAs) have been identified, i.e. petroleum, oil palm and the electrical and electronics sub-sectors. The importance of NKEAs sub-sector to sustain the performance of the Malaysian economy inspired this study to examine the relationship between high skilled labour and its productivity level. Specifically, this paper focuses on the impact of highly skilled labour on productivity levels in sub-sectors of the NKEAs. Highly skilled labour consists of labour from the managerial and professional category, and, semi-skilled labour is the technical and supervisory category. This study utilizes data from Industrial Manufacturing Survey published by the Department of Statistics Malaysia, covering the period from 1985 to 2010. The results show that highly-skilled labour contributes significantly to the productivity of the overall NKEAs, and each sub-sector of the NKEA, except palm oil. Under the NKE.....

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No consensus of franchisee as entrepreneur is offered in the entrepreneurship and franchising literature. Nevertheless, many studies and debates in franchising studies have perceived the franchisee as entrepreneur rather than employee, buyer or fellow-worker. This paper employs an alternative view that suggest whether a franchisee is seen as an entrepreneur is governed by the way the theorist views his/her role. Further, franchisees may not be the _entrepreneur_ in the fullest sense of the word but they are absolutely an entrepreneur. Therefore, this paper proposes that the franchisee should be viewed as entrepreneur, within the theories of entrepreneur_s characteristics. Keywords Franchise, franchising, franchisee, franchisee entrepreneur..

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Kajian ini dijalankan untuk mengkaji keberkesanan penggunaan bahan wama alam semula jadi dalam  menghasilkan batik. lanya penting untuk menilai Kursus Batik SS 2182  yang dijalankan di Fakulti  Sains Sosial dan Kesenian Uruversiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Penyelidik berusaha untuk mengkaji  keberkesanan kaedah pengajarannya untuk membolehkan  mahasiswa menghasilkan  batik serta untuk   mengkaji dan mempertingkatkan pengajarannya  melalui kajian tindakan. Sampel untuk kajian ini  terdiri daripada 23 orang mahasiswa yang mengambil kursus seperti yang dinyatakan di atas. Penyelidik  menggunakan  model  CIPP ( Konteks, Input, Proses, Produk) yang diperkenalkan oleh  Stufflebeam. Data akan diperolehi secara kaedah kualitatif dan kuantitatif Dapatan kajian ini akan  dianalisis menggunakan SPSS dan beberapa kaedah analisis kualitatif seperti analisis dokumen,  analisis teks, laporan analisis pemerhatian dan borang panduan temu bual. Hasil dapatan kajian ini menunjukk.....

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The study investigated the external factors specifically on the social impacts towards leadership in Higher education in Malaysia. The paper aims to highlight the social impacts in the areas namely, indirect communication, preserving face, status gap, self-interest, and Malaysian culture towards the leadership in higher institutions. The study employed a qualitative paradigm where a total of thirty two respondents were interviewed. The findings show that social impacts contribute significantly towards the construction of leadership and leadership effectiveness at Higher Education in Malaysia. Thus, this implies that leadership is being constructed by the surrounding environment, that a simple formula for leadership does not exist. Keywords Leadership, higher education, social impact, culture, communication..

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This paper attempts to study returns to education by taking into account of the quality of jobs match held by workers in the manufacturing sector of Malaysia. This type of study is quite rare not only in the country but also across developing nations. Using the second Malaysia Productivity Investment Climate Survey (PICS-2), nearly 20% and 30% of workers employed in jobs for which they are overeducated and undereducated, respectively. Further findings indicate that Over-education is more acute amongst highly-educated workers whilst under-education is more evident for lowly educated workers. By gender, women have a higher proportion of overeducated workers compared to men. Consequently, over-education leads to a lower productivity in terms of earnings. The augmented Mincer earnings equation, i.e. the ORU model clearly show that although returns to surplus education was positive (So), the return was lower than the returns to required education (Sr), approximately 6% against 10%. This mea.....

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Kajian  ini  menggunakan  kaedah  campuran  iaitu  kajian  tindakan  dalam  proses pembinaan modul  serta kajian kes tunggal jenis multiple baseline across participant untuk mengkaji keberkesanan  modul pennainan yang dijalankan melalui pemerhatian ke atas tiga murid autisme iaitu pada Fasa  Asas, Intervensi, Generalisasi, dan Susulan. Data yang ditulis dalam graf garisan menunjukkan  bahawa ketiga-tiga responden kajian mengalami pencapaian yang semakin meningkat dari Fasa Asas  sehingga Fasa Susulan disamping dengan pengurangan pemberian bantuan dan pengukuhan daripada guru.  Namun begitu, penguasaan  terhadap kedua-dua aspek yang diukur adalah berbeza. Kemahiran komunikasi  dikuasai dengan lebih baik oleh dua orang responden dalam kajian ini terutamanya dalam aktiviti  imitasi reka bentuk blok. Kedua-dua responden  telah  dapat membina  reka  bentuk  blok yang lebih   kompleks secara berdikari dengan bentuk yang seperti yang diingini. Sementara kemah.....

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This paper examines the paradigm of school_s financial audit model. The sample consists of 100 school auditors in Malaysia. Field work covered states in the Northern of the Peninsular Malaysia. A structured 49 closed ended items questionnaires were used to collect the data. This study uses quantitative method such as correlation, chisquare and multiple regression analysis to test the variables. The finding confirms that the schools financial audit model consists of general standard, audit work standard, and reporting standard. This model can be used by various parties including private entities, state education department and other government agencies. Keywords Financial audit, school audit, financial management..

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