Dear Dr.

Shoba,

In order to facilitate my sampling efforts and keep the respondent community within academia, I have
decided to amend one of the independent variable as illustrated below. This is to keep my survey efforts
within the academia and not spilling over to other communities. I believe the academia itself has many
critical issues that need research attentions and interventions. Hope you will kindly approve this
amendment and allow me to proceed. Thanks Ma…

Title: Industry Competency of Malaysian Graduates

Original DV and IVs

Independent Dependent
Variable Variable

Effectiveness of existing
pedagogical initiatives in the
academia

Impact of academia-industry Competency Gap between

collaboration efforts in
developing effective KT Graduates and Industry
initiatives
Expectation

Effectiveness of government’s
initiatives in supporting both
industry and academia in
developing human capital
intellectual rigour and engagement

Amended IV (in yellow)

Independent Dependent
Variable Variable

Effectiveness of curricula and

program design in Academia

Effectiveness of existing Competency Gap between

pedagogical initiatives in the
academia Graduates and Industry

Expectation

Effectiveness of academia-
industry KT collaboration
initiatives