Educational and language policies implemented by the government have directly or indirectly influenced the trend of translation activities in Malaysia. In addition to the educational factor, economic development and globalisation have also influenced translation activities in the country. Besides translations of academic texts, there has also been a need for translations of information materials and other text types particularly in meeting the requirements of the economic sectors. The demand for more and better qualified personnel in the translation industry has resulted in the introduction of various translation training programmes from short and intensive courses conducted by translation bodies to university-level programmes offered by the higher academic institutions. This paper reviews the translator training scenario in the country and discusses pertinent issues such as the need for professionally-oriented translation programmes, the suitability of current training programmes and the feasibility of offering other language pairs (besides the English-Malay/Malay-English pairs), in fulfilling the expectations of various sectors.