E. Salehi Omran; A. Jafari Samimi; J. Nili
Volume 17, 3,4 , February 2011, , Pages 143-170
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The aim of the present article is to investigate the comparative advantage of state higher education majors in Kurdistan province in bachelor’s degree and associate degree from 1382 to 1385 in Kurdistan University and boys and girls’ junior colleges in Sanandaj as the most important centers of state higher education in province and its comparison with economic advantages of this region. The results of the computation of comparative advantage that has been done by the revealed comparative advantage of Ballassa show that Kurdistan province has comparative advantage in 8 sections and 37 activities out of 15 sections and 72 economic activities but although most of the majors have comparative advantage in higher education, there is not so much accordance with economic sections’ advantage due to limitations in majors. There is also difference between KurdistanUniversity and boys and girls’ junior colleges in Sanandaj in priority of comparative advantage of majors and the degree of accordance with economic sections.
Soheila Hashemi; Ebrahim Salehi Omran; Roghieh Valipoor Khajeh Ghiyasi
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This paper attempts to investigate university students' citizenship knowledge, attitude and skill. It also intends to study the quality of citizenship education in higher education. This study was conducted through quantitative (descriptive) and qualitative method. The required data were gathered from ...
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This paper attempts to investigate university students' citizenship knowledge, attitude and skill. It also intends to study the quality of citizenship education in higher education. This study was conducted through quantitative (descriptive) and qualitative method. The required data were gathered from both students through a questionnaire and professors through semi-structured interviews. 359 students were selected by using Cochran formula and stratified sampling based on the students, entrance year, sex, and faculty. The sample of professors consisted of 14 persons. They were selected through chain sampling. The Questionnaire data were analyzed by using descriptive and referential statistics, and inductive analysis was used to analyze the interviews data. Findings show that the mean of students' citizenship knowledge is lower than average and the mean of citizenship attitude and skill is higher than average. Also the result of T-test for comparing the mean of citizenship knowledge, attitude and skill in students who entered university in 1385 with that of students entering in 1382 indicated that except for the subareas of pluralism and patriotism there was no significant difference among the two groups of students in other components. On the other hand, the professors' ideas illustrate that the higher education has not been successful enough in promoting citizenship domains. It seems that higher education has mostly been inclined toward theoretical knowledge and memorization and fostering citizenship skills has not been its pivotal concern. Except of law and political subjects (due to their special nature), higher education does not put emphasis on citizenship knowledge.
