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The Malaysian Surveyor

costs, only 57.69% realise that school Yes No
authorities are entitled to pay for repair
costs if it is not preserved and maintain 14 13(86.67%)
properly, while 42.30% did not realise it.
12 11(73.33%)
By knowing the facts of their school has
not been gazetted as national heritage, 10
86.67% agree that their building to
be gazetted as heritage educational Respondents 8
institute, as some of them comment
that it can improve school and building 6
performance. On the other hands, 4(26.67%)
majority of the respondents disagree
that school to be funding responsible 4
for building maintenance and repairs, 2(13.33%)
which accounted for 73.33% of disagree
and while only 26.67% agreed. Hence, 2
building heritage status might make
different on building maintenance 0
performance and condition due to
occupants’ awareness to protect Consent on school building to be Consent on school parties to be fund
and preserve the heritage building.
Besides, the respondents noted that gazetted as heritage educational institute provider for maintenance/repairs work
school itself is financially responsible
for maintenance and repair costs, but Figure 5: Specific questions for respondent with right perception in non-heritage
they deem that it should not be only school
responsible for one party, perhaps
government can allocate extra budget Gazetted Non - Gazetted
on maintenance for gazetted heritage
educational institution. Gazetted, 0.68, Neutral
Non - Gazetted, 0.79, High
Comparison of influential factors
between the Gazetted and the Non- Financial Status
Gazette heritage education institutes is
shown in Figure 6. Building Heritage Technical

At a glance, the Non-Gazetted heritage Status Provisions
educational institutes rated financial
status and building heritage status as Gazetted, 0.49, Low Gazetted, 0.67, Neutral
higher level importance compared to the Non - Gazetted, 0.64, Neutral Non - Gazetted, 0.62, Neutral
Gazetted Heritage educational institutes.
For instance, financial status is rated as Provisions of Availability of
0.79 is non-Gazetted heritage school but Institutional & material
only 0.68 in Gazetted school. Besides, Training Facilities
building heritage status rated higher replacement
by the respondents in non-Gazetted Gazetted, 0.71, High
school, which is 0.64 compared to Non - Gazetted, 0.66, Neutral Gazetted, 0.71, High
Gazetted school, as it is only 0.49. On Non - Gazetted, 0.66, Neutral
the other hands, the respondents in
Gazetted school rated other factors, Management & Human Behaviour
such as technical provisions, availability
of material replacement, and human Administration & Attitudes
behaviour & attitudes as more influential
factors compared to the respondents Gazetted, 0.68, Neutral Gazetted, 0.71, High
in non-Gazetted school. Whilst for Non - Gazetted, 0.67, Neutral Non - Gazetted, 0.66, Neutral
management & administration,
Figure 6: Relative important index (RII) of influential factors between Gazetted
14 and Non-Gazette heritage educational institutes rated by the respondents

respondents in both heritage school groups
have similar perception of importance, which
is are both 0.68.

To summarise, all of these factors are ranked
according to relative importance index (RII)
rated by the respondents show in Figure 9.