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{"title":"Destination Choice of Higher Education among the Local Secondary School Students in Sarawak","authors":"Winnie Wong Poh Ming","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-10","url":null,"abstract":"Destination choice of higher education has long been a subject of international research. The higher education sector in Malaysia is currently experiencing intense competition as many higher education institutions are mushrooming in the market. As a result of this, students now face more complexities when choosing a suitable higher learning institution for their studies. Hence, the primary objective of this study is to propose a valid framework that determines the most significant determinants of students’ decisions on choosing higher education institutions among local students in Sarawak. Specifically, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship strengths between job perspectives, reputation of institution, location, cost, parental advice, peer influence, and student’s choice intention. This study takes on the primary data collection approach. Data was collected through a complete set of questionnaire in a survey. Non-probability sampling method (purposive sampling) was used in the process of data collection. A total sample of 324 secondary school students participated in this study. The SmartPLS (version 3.2.6) was utilised to perform the Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) estimation procedure to examine the proposed direct and indirect relationship. Interestingly, the results indicated that reputation of university and parents’ advice contributed the most to students’ decisions regarding their higher education choice. Current findings of the study may be informative and can play a role as a basic guideline for future scholars. The findings may also assist marketers of higher education institutions to understand the concept of “business-to-students” before promoting and convincing more potential students. Several research limitations, implications, and recommendations for future research have also been highlighted in the study.","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129878247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Cost Performance of Public Building Projects: Determining the Effect of Errors in Bills of Quantities in North Eastern Nigeria","authors":"A. A. Jalam, Nuru Gambo Alhassan Dahiru","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-04","url":null,"abstract":"Construction cost performance is one of the major criteria by which success of building projects are measured. However, numerous factors were reported by researchers to be responsible for extreme poor cost performance, among which is inaccurate cost estimate. Preceding researches focused largely on: identifying and categorizing errors in Bills of Quantities (BOQ) as a document that provides cost estimate, errors in construction contract document at large, and sustainability of the application of BOQ despite the faced challenges. It is therefore necessary to determine the level of effects of errors in BOQ as a component of contract document on cost performance of public building project in order to augment the effectiveness of cost performance in North Eastern Nigeria. Positivist research approach was used where 140 questionnaires were administered to quantity surveyors (QSs): consultants’ QSs, contractors’ QSs and public servants’ QSs whom were selected using simple random sampling technique. 112 were returned and 105 were used for the analysis with 7 invalids, this resulted to response rate of 75%. The effect of errors was measured using multiple regression analysis. The results indicated that errors in BOQ contributes to poor cost performance with statistically significant effect size of 6.8%. This research is limited to errors in BOQ in North Eastern Nigeria. It should serve as a wake-up call to stakeholders in Nigerian construction industry on the consequences of errors in BOQ for enhancing effective cost performance for national economic development.","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"88 43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130809590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Construction Duration Determinants of Building Projects in Sarawak","authors":"A. M. Kamaruddeen, Yap Wan Keat, Ibrahim Jibrin Abubakar","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-05","url":null,"abstract":"This research utilized the quantitative method and stratified simple random sampling technique to collect data with a view to investigating the determinants of construction duration of building projects in Sarawak. Out of the 180 copies of questionnaire distributed to grade 4, 5, 6 and 7 contractors operating within Bintulu and Sibu in Sarawak, only 36 copies were duly completed, making the valid response rate to be 20 percent. Descriptive analysis and Relative Importance Index (RII) were utilized in analysing the data. The descriptive analysis revealed that availability of construction site, type of building constructed and market condition are the important determinants of construction duration. The result of relative importance index revealed that the availability of construction site is the highest determinant. This study has complemented the existing knowledge on the determinants of construction duration.","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130772512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multiculturalism as a Reflection in the Decorative Motif in Malaysia Traditional Buildings","authors":"Norzalifa Zainal Abidin, Puteri Shireen Jahn Kassim, Tengku Anis Qarihah Raja Abdul Kadir","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-09","url":null,"abstract":"Multiculturalism is under constant debate as to how it is linked to developing inclusive identity in the facades of public buildings: yet it must be rooted in overall local identity. The richness of this multiculturalism elements is reflected in the various motifs applied in the traditional public buildings. Influences of this Multiculturalism will also be discussed in this paper. The paper reviews a series of composition analyses of the motifs in the building components and elements of palaces, an aristocratic house and a mosque in Malaysia in order to study the composite elemental vocabulary based elements and the links to the local endemic Malay identity and traditional decoration motifs from the selected building elements; such as wall and ventilation panels, door leafs, staircases and balustrades are extracted n studied morphologically. Case study taken from Balai Besar Kedah, (1896) Istana Jahar (1887) Kota Bharu, Istana Bandar (1903) Kelang, Rumah Panglima Ghani Melaka and Masjid Tengkera Melaka (Malaysia). The motifs are \u0000broken down into constituent multicultural components and elements to show vocabulary and usage of colour which also reflect the symbolic meanings behind these motif compositions. The basic understanding of these elements are shown to reflect the multiculturalism richness and vocabulary used in these decoration motifs.","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115231706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Factors Influencing Personal Finance Management Among the Students of University College of Technology Sarawak (UCTS)","authors":"Utin Roziana Binti Gusti Asmadi","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-12","url":null,"abstract":"Young adults generally learn their skills from parents and teachers as children. However, parents often overlook teaching financial skills, such as budgeting and investing, while their children are still living at home. Consequently, children are forced to learn how to handle their finances after leaving home, entering colleges or universities. Sometimes they may make mistakes that would cost them several years of repayment of loans. This research therefore examined the prime factors of University College of Technology Sarawak (UCTS) students on managing their personal finance, and the relations between each influencing factor with the youth financial knowledge at UCTS by the using Theory of Planned Behaviour (TBP). The resulting analysis and interpretation provided a description of the influence of cash management and credit management behaviour related to students' financial knowledge. The qualitative method in this study derived from a constructive perspective. The outcome of this study is that the influence of family members is important yet complicated for personal financial management behaviour. Based on the findings, three primary categories with supporting factors emerged as the critical components of each category. These three primary categories represent a conceptual framework for the students' personal financial management.","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"14 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133525283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Exploratory Study on Development of Effective Strategies in Social Media","authors":"Ong Sing Ling, Jill Ling Pei Wah","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-06","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of mobile computing, the focus of the marketing media has shifted from traditional media to social media. We are no longer solely reliant on the newspapers, radio and television for marketing. In fact, people are inclined to go online on social media every day. One of the popular social media today is WeChat. As a mobile app, WeChat has been widely used for social networking and business purposes. This research serves as a groundwork to explore and study on the strategies in using WeChat as a self-branding marketing tool, which leads to enhanced relationships and increased sales. To conduct this research, qualitative method which involved interviews and observations were used to gather the data. Thirty interviews were conducted to elicit the ideas or beliefs from WeChat users who are micro e-marketers. Observations in WeChat groups and WeChat Moments were carried out. All the data collection was subsequently analysed using content analysis. Results indicated that effective WeChat marketing strategies are composed of four main aspects: WeChat followers strategy, WeChat self-branding strategy, WeChat Moments strategy and WeChat groups marketing strategy. This exploratory study contributes a fundamental knowledge about effective WeChat marketing strategies. The research results provided insights into how WeChat can be used as a platform to establish, keep and satisfy the customers; create job opportunities for society and overall, bring welfare to the nation.","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132452579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Measuring Legacy: Architectural representation and cultural identity in an historical marker","authors":"I. Ng","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-11","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the problem of adaptation and integration in relation to an immigrant culture by using an heritage building that possesses more than a passing historical significance to argue that sustaining an architectural work in the wake of vacillating subscription to its original use can be crucial to keeping alive contestations for community recognition. Beginning with an architect’s gaze initiated by a measured drawing exercise, it observes a range of architectural adaptations that the building has undergone in integrating itself into a transposed location, before suggesting that consideration of the historical and social narratives embedded in building-and-builder is inevitable to map their communal contribution to national conversations fully. Employing a hybrid methodology of architectural case study and interpretive, literaturebased, social analysis, it finds that engagement with the equatorial climate wrought the most change to the northern Chinese typology of this building, and that there is a metaphorical parallel in the inherent narrative that highlights cultural negotiation and compromise. It concludes by arguing that any unequivocal quest for historical truth can only be healthy for a multicultural society that keeps vigil over political harmony, and that the process necessarily involves “re-storying” as much as “archaeological” findings. It suggests five potential areas for further research.","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131216683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Buy, Hold or Sell? A Study on Islamic Institutional Investors’ Investment Decision Behavior in Bursa Malaysia","authors":"","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114978339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Equity Analysis of Scholarships and Loans in Financing Students’ Tertiary Education in the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) Region","authors":"Hieng Soon Lau","doi":"10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35370/bjssh.2019.1.1-01","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the equity of scholarships and student loans at the two private Institutions of higher learning in the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) region. Surveys involving undergraduates of two private institutions of higher learning were conducted. Using cross-tabulation, the equality of scholarship and loan distributions to undergraduates with reference to four independent variables: ethnicity, gender, areas of origin and income groups were investigated. Chi-square test was used to examine associations between the provision of scholarships and loans and the four independent variables. By employing cross-tabulation and multiple logistic regression, the scholarship distributions favour male over female and urban over rural respectively in terms of type-1 and type-2 equality measurements. However, cross-tabulation analysis shows that the scholarship distribution favours native in terms of type-1 equality but non-natives for type-2 equality. Multiple regression analysis also indicated that native had more scholarship support than non-natives. For the income groups, both cross-tabulations and multiple regression analyses yielded similar results whereby the high income group received most scholarship, followed by the top-bracket, lowest, low and medium income groups. For the loan distribution, cross-tabulations and multiple logistic regressions indicated that loans favour non-natives over natives, female over male and urban over rural respectively in terms of type-1 and type-2 equality measurements. However, for the income groupings, it showed mixed results respectively when using both analyses. The result also indicated that the probability for students to get scholarships and loans contrast distinctly with one another with given characteristics. Moreover, respondents highly supported the issues surrounding loans as an alternative mechanism of financing tertiary education. To ease the budgetary pressure and for equity and efficiency reasons, it is suggested an income-contingent loans can be introduced as a student financial support.","PeriodicalId":173200,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120935949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}