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Graduate Education in Iran and Quality Path
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Abstract: (1954 Views) |
Background: The World Bank in its 1994 study entitled "Higher Education: Lessons from Experience" states that universities are responsible for training future world leaders as well as creating and developing high-level technical capabilities for global economic growth. It declares that countries over the past two decades have invested heavily in universities and higher education institutions. However, in many developing countries we have seen a decline in the quality of higher education.
Graduate education and its works are an important part of a continuous research process that helps us understand the world in which we live. Therefore, the students by participating in a social process not only make society aware of its complexities, issues, and beauties, but they also work individually to improve their lives by expanding insight and learning. The purpose of graduate education should be to train self-guided, challenging, seeking, and questioning individuals so that they can increase their goal-oriented and participatory spirit. Given the importance of graduate education and its graduates in the production of science and wealth for society, the present study was conducted by the Department of Basic Sciences of the Academy of Medical Sciences with the aim of examining the ability of educational groups to educate graduate students in medical universities over a seven-year period (1388 to 1395).
Methods: In this descriptive study, the main variable of the research was: the status of the departments with graduate courses, and the sub-variables were: the goals and organizational position of the educational department, the status of faculty members, the teaching and learning process, the status of facilities and the educational equipment of the faculty, the research projects and theses. Nine educational departments with graduate courses from each of the four universities of medical sciences, including: Shahid Beheshti, Iran, Mashhad, Tehran, a total of 36 departments were considered as the sample of study for the period 1388 to 1395.
Results: The findings of this study indicate that in general, the situation of the universities under study is acceptable, but due to the facilities and budget that all of them have, they do not meet the expectations of the first-ranked universities. Totally, it seems that when the status of graduate courses in four first-ranked universities is less than 70%, we cannot expect more outputs from lower-ranked universities.
Conclusion: The Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education should seek basic solutions to improve the quality of graduate education in line with the mission of third and fourth generation universities. |
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| Keywords: Credentialism, Education-Graduate, Post graduate Education, Quality of Education |
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Type of Study: Review Article |
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Received: 2020/10/12 | Accepted: 2020/03/19 | Published: 2020/03/19
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