JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND PLANNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Year:2001 | Volume:7 | Issue:1(19)|Papers Count:10

The Japanese nation belives that without plentiful stocks of fundamental basic research activities, research and development and promoting creativity in science and technology, they will have no way to ensure the development of the nation. Thus, the Japanese higher educations challenge is to identify the structural reform required to reverse the traditional focus of the educational sector. The current concern to expand graduate education, changes the chair system, expands university -industry collaboration, and increases the number of foreign researchers in Japanese laboratories. These are all part of the thrust for a new and more stimulating higher educational process. But even bolder reforms are required if Japan hopes to move the educational sector to a new knowledge creation paradigm. This paper tries to clarify how the Japanese Government, University and Industry support each other to promote the basic research and development, together with the challenge of this century. This paper also reviews the current wave reform that seeks to restore the higher educations position as the central creator of knowledege From this study, it can be seen that Japans universities have been effective in knowledege seeking but poor in knowledge creation, and hence that Japan has been devising alternate institutions to meet these needs. Thus, a major concern in the present reform effort is to bring greater flexibil1ty and instability to a system that is premised on limited choice and stability.

The purpose of the present paper is to determine the importance of different factors such as the year of experience, rank ,base the involvement in executive affairs on wages and salaries of the University of Mazandaran faculty members during 1983-1998. The results of the present paper show that: 1. The salaries of the universities faculty members 2. The estimate,d regression models indicate that among factors. related to salaries of the faculty members the involvment in executive affairs, ranks, degree, base, and the Years of experience are respectively important. The years of experience are respectively important. 3. The Increase in salaries as a result of a promotion (I.e higher rank) is less that the increase in salaries as a resuit of involvement in executive affairs of the Universities. We have concluded that in order to improve the quality and especially to create sufficient incentive for faculty memhers to involvo in search oriented affairs, we need to make a revision in the payment mechanism and recommend the policy makers of the Ministry of Sciences, Researches, and Technology to bear in mind the features of the faculty members in making decisions related to increases in their wages and salaries

The word "development" is a complex concept and no single definition exhaustively covers all of its aspects. In this article, industrial development, one of the most common aspects of development is chosen and its relationship with science technology indicator are investigated in different countries of the world. Universities and university -based researches as one of most evident aspect of science & technology and its relationship with industrial development is emphasized and the role of states in stablishment & improvement of this relationship is explained through analysis of cononical relations. Certain conclusions are drawn based on this analysis and some specific suggestions about improving the level of science & technology, university -industry relations and industrial development in Iran are suggested.

This research was conducted to determine whether, in terms of learning styles, there is a difference between university student learning to sex academic statue, and field of study. The subjects were 410 students (254 males and 156 female) at graduate and undergraduate levels. The instrument used was Kolbs Learning Styles Inventory (L S T). The method used for data analysis was X2 and ANOVA. The results showed that: (1) there is no difference between males and females learning styles; (2)between students with different fields of studies there was significant, namely humanities students were mostly accomodates, medical students were generally assimilators, and technical students had largely divergent styles; (3) there was significant difference between graduate and undergraduate students, undergraduate students were mostly accomodators, while graduate students were mainly convergers.

This article investigates the effect of social organization of the academic environment, quality and quantity of students interaction with faculty members, occupational and other characteristics of students on self -efficacy of the graduate students. Educational environment of the university effect various dimensions of students life including their attitudes & behaviors. This article evaluates social & organizational effects of academic environment on students evaluations of thier own abilities to succeed in academic affairs & competition their particular academic requirements. The developed analytical model is tested using a sample of 369 graduate students. In accordance with Albert Bandura theory of self -efficacy, factor analysis of the dependent variable (academic self -efficacy) showed that academic self -efficacy is a two -dimensional construct consisting of personal academic self -efficacy & academic self -efficacy. The students impression of their professors, their employment in occupations relevant with their field of study and continuity of their studies in the same university were the most important factor effecting on academic efficacy. Professors continous and I professional monitoring of students activities, scientific interaction within and among student and professors, students employment in occupations related with their field of study, and their living status with regardent to their family were among the most important factors effecting the personal academic self -efficacy of the students.

The present article is stemmed from a thesis under the topic of "Design of Optimal Model for Educational Planning in Kordestan, Based on the Analysis Managment". The main goal was to provide the optimal model of educational planning on the basis of the findings from territorial management analysis. The main question of the study was to detemine the extent to which the principles of territorial management analysis the educational program of Kordestan region. 1. The results show that educational planning of Kordestan have not been based on territorial management principles. No harmony can be observed among different dimensions of development, specially with respect to educational planning, proportional distribution of facilities and educational chances. 2. The political, cultural, social and economic characteristic of Kordestan requires special attention to be paid to the needs of the region and regional development and planning approach to be emphasized. 3. Territorial management approach is an appropriate tool for measurement of potentials and educational needs of the region. It also privides a list of activities necessary for the development of Kordestan region in a long term educational planning framework. The study also emphasizes on the importance of ethical, cultural and economic considerations in educational planning, since they facilitate .the optimal use of existing resources and enhancement of efficiency.