Academic Enhancement Support for Student-Athlete in Malaysia Public Universities

Supports on increased academic achievement in particular are not provided to student-athletes who enrolled on undergraduate programs in Malaysia public universities. Almost 40 percent of student-athletes who underwent sessions of study at the undergraduate experience some problems in improving their academic achievement than student’s undergraduates who do not engage in sports activities actively. Problems concerning the improvement of academic achievement among student-athletes are due to factors of environment that are not supportive towards them during their study sessions. Some of student-athletes could not be maintained in the session of study, scholarship, and the implications from the result are they are not allowed to participate in training and also competition. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore elements of support that could enhance academic achievement for students-athletes in aspect of environment. Qualitative research approach involves 12 respondents representing academia, management institutions and the management of student-athletes to explore elements of support increase academic achievement in terms of environment for student-athletes. This data is collected through face to face interview and the data were analyzed based on thematic analysis by using pencil and paper to identify elements of support that increases academic achievement in various aspects of environment. The result of the analysis found that there are 9 elements in aspects of environment that can help increase the academic achievement of student-athletes that enroll on undergraduate programs in Malaysia Public Universities. Therefore, the 9 elements of support increase are expected to help undergraduate studentathletes at public universities to improve their academic achievement.