Strategic Analysis Of The Role Of Developmental Higher Education In Iraq After 2003

Abstract

Abstract

This research comes to alert to the importance of the role of higher education institutions and economic scientific research, as these institutions are the main source in the formation of human capital in addition to the technological development of the means of production operating in economic activity, and then the possibility of investing these institutions to achieve diversity in the economic activity which is the gateway to move towards achieving economic development and leaving the backward rentier pattern of the Iraqi economy. The research deals with the period after the year of the political change in 2003 and from the perspective of strategic analysis of the internal and external environment of the higher education sector, which showed that there is a remarkable development in the numbers of universities, colleges and scientific departments, whether governmental or private, which were developed during this period and the levels of development in the quality of the educational service provided by these institutions is weak. On the other hand, the external circumstances and factors that include what has an influential relationship on the economic role of education were not conducive to opening the way for an effective role for education, but rather hindered it. Accordingly, it is necessary to address weaknesses in the performance of higher education institutions by investing in the available opportunities from global openness and the return of Iraq's relations with the outside world, and then strengthening cooperation ties with international institutions specialized in aspects of developing higher education as well as the possibility of benefiting from the experiences of sober universities globally, as the information revolution can be invested And the contacts that the world is witnessing to keep pace with the developments in science and knowledge.