Contribution of Facilities Management Processes in Supporting Malaysia National Higher Education Strategic Plan

Abstract

This paper is to understanding and identifies the contribution of Facilities Management Processes in supporting Malaysia National Higher Education Strategic Plan (MNHESP) for fulfil the National Higher Education Action Plan by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE). This paper attempts to establish understanding and contribution of FM Processes in relation with Malaysia National Higher Education Strategic Plan for Malaysia higher education institutions. This research also presents preliminary study on influencing FM processes implementation in higher education institution toward strengthen higher education management in term of strategic plan in Malaysia. The application of FM to be extended to higher level, whereby the result of good education practice to be achieved by way of improving and facilitating FM process in National Higher Education Strategic Plan. Ministry of Higher Education(MOHE) recently determine seven (7) outline the National Higher Education Strategic Plan. The research adopts comprehensive literature reviews from numerous published sources such as journals, magazines, government reports, unpublished thesis and website document focusing on higher education in Malaysia published by Malaysia Ministry of Higher Education. Comprehensive literature review focusing on the understanding development of Facilities Management processes (FMP), Malaysia National Higher Education Strategic Plan, and Contribution of Facilities Management Processes in supporting Malaysia National Higher Education Strategic Plan. The paper expecting that major improvement will be achieved once adopting FM processes in the system of Higher Education and it will also contribute to major changes and improvement in Malaysia Education systems. The ideas to be implemented at every level and perhaps to achieve the strategic plan outlined by MOHE