Expectations of upstream documents from the higher education system

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Mehdi Alipour Hafezi
KIS, Psychology and education faculty, Allame Tabatabari' University
10.61838/KMAN.IRPHE.30.2.1
Abstract
The main goal of this research is to identify the expectations of the higher education system of Iran from universities and research institutes. In line with the main goal research, an attempt has been made to analyze the upstream documents of Iran's higher education system and extract the expectations from the higher education system in order to provide suggestions for the governing institutions as well as universities and institutions of higher education. The present study was conducted qualitatively and with the method of document study using thematic analysis method. Two filtering stages were performed by two experts simultaneously and the results were compared in the next step, and finally 391 axes were extracted from these documents and clustered into eight categories. The study group of the current research was formed in the study section of upstream documents of the Iran's higher education system. The findings of research showed that the main axes of the concepts mentioned in the upstream documents can be clustered in the eight main axes of infrastructure, research, education, policy, scientific participation, communication with industry and commercialization. Meanwhile, the axis of education, which is the main function of most universities and institutions of higher education, ranks fourth in terms of the attention of upstream documents. Also, the fields related to the activities of the universities in the third and fourth generations, placed in the least amount of attention. On the other hand, the upstream documents, whose main focus should be universities and higher education institutions, include less than 20% of statements extracted from upstream documents. The results obtained from the study of upstream documents in the current research showed that the documents emphasize the axes of infrastructure, research, cultural and social, education, policy, scientific participation, connection with industry and commercialization, and in the meantime, infrastructure criteria, Cultural and social, research and education, respectively, have the most focus in the upstream documents of the higher education system. Upstream documents have diverse expectations from Higher Education systems. In some cases they are in far distance from Higher education systems’ role in international scale.

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  • Receive Date 19 August 2023
  • Revise Date 28 October 2023
  • Accept Date 25 December 2023
  • Publish Date 21 June 2024