School-to-Pathway Guidance and Placement Support
Students complete SPM without a structured understanding of available pathways and qualified candidates lose places through incomplete or late applications
Programme Logic
Problem
Students complete SPM without a structured understanding of available pathways and qualified candidates lose places through incomplete or late applications
Structural Cause
Career guidance capacity is thin in the schools serving this population, and admissions systems assume informed applicants
Intervention
Structured career profiling in Form 4-5, application clinics for matriculation, university, polytechnic, community college and TVET admissions, and follow-through to placement confirmation
Who & How
Target Group
Indian students in the two years before completing secondary education
Eligibility
All Indian students in participating schools; intensive support prioritised by household income
Deliverables
Outputs
Career profiling delivered to participating cohorts; application clinics held in each state; placement outcomes published by pathway
Outcomes
Higher proportion of Indian SPM leavers entering a confirmed post-school pathway within twelve months
Key Performance Indicators
Post-school destination
Proportion of Indian SPM leavers in a confirmed education, training or employment destination twelve months after leaving school
Costing (Central Scenario)
Where these figures come from
Why this figure?· RM 19.4m over 6 yearsProvisional
- Method
- Per-student service model: cohort x unit cost x years, plus one-off platform
- Key inputs
- RM 120 — RM120 per student profiling and clinic support; RM5m one-off platform in Phase 1
- Population
- Approximately 20,000 Indian students per SPM cohort (provisional) (All students in participating schools receive profiling; intensive support prioritised by income)
- Benchmark
- Cohort size derived from the Indian share of the national SPM cohort and is PROVISIONAL. NOTE, flagged by independent critique: this figure (approximately 20,000 per year) coincides with the annual birth-cohort figure at ASM-008. They are NOT the same population - an SPM cohort is drawn from births some seventeen years earlier, when the Indian population share was higher, and only a subset of any birth cohort sits SPM. The coincidence is unexplained and at least one of the two figures is likely wrong. Both are gating on MOE/DOSM confirmation (VAL-09, VAL-14). Unit cost benchmarked to existing school-based guidance service costs but with no external source, hence Provisional.
- Funding split
- existing 0.40 = school counselling and career-guidance posts already established in MOE; reallocated 0.10 = MITRA education grants; new 0.50 = incremental profiling, clinics and the platform. ASSUMPTION pending MOE confirmation (VAL-14).
- Source
- Internal estimate — no external source cited.
- Status
- Planning assumption pending validation· pending validation (VAL-14)
- Note
- Cohort size derived from the Indian share of the national SPM cohort and is PROVISIONAL. NOTE, flagged by independent critique: this figure (approximately 20,000 per year) coincides with the annual birth-cohort figure at ASM-008. They are NOT the same population - an SPM cohort is drawn from births
Delivery & Accountability
Lead Ministry
Ministry of Education
Accounting Officer
Secretary-General Ministry of Education
Supporting Agencies
Ministry of Higher Education; state education departments; TVET institutions; professional associations
Mandate Basis
School-based career guidance is an MOE function