«Re-Engineering» Dual Training - The Malaysian Experience shows how a new industrial country is
successfully pursuing the aim to ensure the extremely swift increase of economic development by
initiatives and concepts for the qualification of skilled workers. This publication reflects
the analysis of best practice in training which centers around the workplace in lead countries
as well as the philosophy policies and procedures of the emerging Malaysian National Dual
Training System. Excellence in high-tech work must be based on excellence in training. Training
based on targeting specific competencies was seen as a way to achieve this excellence. However
this apparently logical approach which seemed to make it the panacea for meeting today's
pressing high-tech training needs has failed to keep its promise. Yet its undisputable
contribution to the development of highly effective training has been to create awareness that
the necessary accountability of training can only be secured through the definition of
occupational standards. However when they only reflect the immediate work which has to be
carried out at the workplace occupational standards seemingly fall short. The rapidly changing
context of work also needs to be reflected and therefore a new focus on the workprocess is
needed to guide the necessary reorientation in training.
