Morshidi is Professor, School of Humanities, Universiti Sains
Malaysia, Penang, a Senior Research Fellow at the National Higher Education
Research Institute (IPPTN), and Founding Director of the Commonwealth Tertiary
Education Facility (CTEF). Between
April 2002 and February 2011 Morshidi was the Director of IPPTN and during this
period he specialised in higher education policy research in Malaysia and
Southeast Asia. His expertise in higher
education policy led to his secondment to the Ministry of Higher Education as
theDeputy Director-General, Department of Higher Education (Public Sector)
(2011-2013). Morshidiwas appointed as the 5th Vice Chancellor of Universiti
Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) in 2013 but he did not served that capacity long as
he was subsequently appointed as Director-General of Higher Education/Registrar
General, Private Institutions of Higher Education, and Malaysia in April 2013. His
foray with higher education policy research and high level administration
pertaining to higher education culminated in his appointment as Director of
CTEF in October 2014. CETF is an entity established by the Ministry of
Education Malaysia and the Commonwealth Secretariat, London. Morshidi has and
continues to publish books, journal articles and book chapters on topics
related to higher education and higher education policy research based on his
research and experiences as top level administrator in the higher education
arena. Morshidi is also active in international collaborative research with
organisations such as OECD/IMHE, the World Bank, UNESCO Bangkok, the Asian
Development Bank, South East Asian Ministers of Education Organisation-Regional
Institute of Higher Education and Development (SEAMEO-RIHED), and International
Institute for Educational Planning, Paris.
Morshidi is also actively engaged as member of the editorial board of Springer
Book series Higher Education in Asia:
Quality, Excellence and Governance. He is also in the editorial advisory
board of higher education journals such asHigher
Education-The International Journal of Higher Education Research, Studies in Higher Education,
Higher Education Policy, Asian Education and Development Studiesand as
Section Editor, Higher Education, Muslim.science.com