Maryam Sadat Ghoraishi Khorasgani

Alzahra University

Decades of research form an extensive body of knowledge on International Collaboration in Research (IRC). However, experiential perspectives of the operative core (the academics) in research collaboration, remained relatively uninvesti-gated. Besides, explorations on how academics in peripheral countries accomplish IRC are still very limited. Final...

Purpose Nowadays, universities increasingly consider reputation as a key component for improving quality and rankings. A positive reputation opens doors to added value and diverse opportunities. This paper aims to explore Middle Eastern higher education managers' perceptions of university reputation components. Design/methodology/approach Given th...

Purpose The present study aimed to investigate the perceptions of academic administrators of the characteristics and strategies of a boundary-spanner leader. Design/methodology/approach For this purpose, the authors adopted a qualitative approach and a descriptive phenomenology method. The participants of the study consisted of academic administra...

This study aimed to investigate the reasons for faculty members' lack of interest in conducting interdisciplinary research in the fields of humanities and social sciences and to provide solutions for that. A qualitative case study method was hence used to achieve this goal. The research sample comprised 16 academic researchers and interdisciplinary...

Aim: The present study aim was identifying the reasons and consequences of students' silence in the classroom. Therefore, a qualitative approach and an exploratory grounded theory method was used. The research population involved students of the public universities in Tehran who were selected 25 of participants by criterion sampling and theoretical...

This study aims at investigating the experienced curricula of the skill-based higher education system from the perspectives of students therefore, a quantitative approach and a descriptive-survey method were utilized. The statistical population of the study comprised students of comprehensive scientific-applied universities in Iran. Stratified rand...

When there are no observations of any social and economic effects of academic research on the welfare of society, this shows us just production of the articles regardless the problem-oriented and its applicability can be a strong evidence for existence of the problem in the academic context of Iran. Thus, this problem has created a phenomenon entit...

The issue of equity has always been the main discourse and the most vital factor of social institutions. Given education and schools are part of social institutions, the issue of equity is a key point in these environments. Thus, the present study investigated the situation of educational equity in public schools in Tehran. Our research was practic...

The research is of practical purpose and conducted in a quantitative framework through using survey method and The research method was descriptive - surveyed. The statistical population of the study consisted of undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students of Al-Zahra University. sampling was performed by stratified random sampling and using C...

The transforming classic universities to the entrepreneurial university is necessary, when paying no attention to this, may have a lot of negative consequences. Therefore, the main objective of this study was exploring these consequences. This qualitative research, implied inductive approach and in terms of methodology it was a descriptive-explorat...

Aims Regarding the fact that higher education is one of the prominent social institutions whose functions and malfunctions have significant consequences on human societies, According to that since 2012, autonomous campuses are responsible for the mission and the function of higher education and the importance of this issue. Therefore this research...

Abstract: This paper aims to study and structural pathology of autonomous campuses at three dimensions (formality, centralization and complexity) and the long-term consequences of damages. Thus, through non-probability and purposeful sampling method, one interviews 21 experts of higher education and managers of autonomous campuses of Tehran...

This research aimed at investigating the problems of having autonomous campuses in terms of social, cultural, economic, political and transnational dimensions and long-term outcomes of these problems. Due to this aim, 21 experts of higher education and directors of autonomous campuses of public universities of Tehran were interviewed using purposiv...

Given the expansion of privatization in higher education and the emergence of a variety of monetary universities in the country, the necessity of research and identification of the effects of privatization of higher education is felt. The aim of the current study is analysis of scientific papers share in privatization of higher education in Iran, I...

This study was conducted with the purpose of addressing the production of scientific works in the field of privatization of higher education abroad and the acquisition of discussions and components focused by studies, the results of the studies and the descriptive and formal analysis of the studies. Accordingly all works produced within the period...