The Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0) and Impact to UNIKL BMI Students

Abstract

Recently the terms IR4.0 becoming popular especially in mainstream media as well as in the universities. Lecturers have been mentioning about preparation towards IR4.0 and it seems that there is something big is going to happen that may change the current educations’ landscape or some changes in the content and delivery mode. According to Aziz Hussin (2018), IR 4.0 is going to change the overall education curriculum in order to meet and prepared the graduates or the workforce towards the industry requirements. Universities roles becoming important in terms of providing the information and equipped their students with the latest information, exposure and experiences in order to meet the industry market demand for the workforce. At the same time (Culot et al., 2020) emphasis that students may need to follow the development of IR 4.0 and willing to explore new opportunities provided by the revolution. Szász et al., (2020) claimed that IR 4.0 is not only about the curriculum and about technology, but the effect is more related on how individual and companies or business organizations may sustain in the industry and enhance their competitiveness.