Habibah Abdul Rahim | |
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17th Director-General of Education | |
In office 10 January 2020 – 28 March 2021 | |
Monarch | Abdullah |
Prime Minister |
Mahathir Mohamad (2020) Muhyiddin Yassin (2020–2021) |
Minister | Mahathir Mohamad (Acting) (2020) Mohd Radzi Md Jidin (2020–2021) |
Preceded by | Amin Senin |
Succeeded by | Nor Zamani Abdol Hamid |
Personal details | |
Born | Malaysia | 5 April 1961
Citizenship | Malaysian |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Occupation | Educator |
Habibah binti Abdul Rahim (born c. 1961) is a Malaysian educator and the former Director-General of Education from January 2020 to March 2021 (but took compulsory retirement as she turned 60 years of age in April the same year). [1]
Habibah graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy with Honors in Biology from the University of Salford in 1985. She then went on to study for a master's degree in education at the University of Bristol in 1993. Habibah earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in education from Stanford University in 2001. [2] [3]