A STUDY OF CRITICAL AREAS THAT MAY EXPERIENCE AGEING ACADEMICIAN SHORTAGE IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES, MALAYSIA

The reduction in the supply of experienced senior academicians will have an impact on the country's education sector in critical study areas, thereby affecting the country's production of future generations that are skilled, innovative, high quality, and competent. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify the critical areas that are facing academician shortages in public universities under the categories of research universities, focus universities, and comprehensive universities. Qualitative methods were used, particularly in-depth research with university registrars and data analysis using NVIVO software 12. The results showed that the critical areas are medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, engineering, law, architecture, surveying, creative industry management, hospitality management, and veterinary medicine.