Investigating the Ratio of Development of Higher Education and Employment in Iran (1989-2016)

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1 Ph.D. of social welfare, Allameh Tabataba'i University

2 Professor of Cooperation and Social Welfare Allameh Tabataba’i University

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In today's world, higher education and employment are two interconnected systems that provide for and consume the needs and talents of society. The former employs human capital and the latter uses human capital for the economic returns of society. The purpose of this article is to gain a systematic view of higher education and employment and to investigate the relation of higher education with employment in Iran. The qualitative method was used for this purpose. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 30 policy makers and executives in higher education and employment. The findings of the present study show that the social supply of higher education has been a central issue in the post-revolutionary Iranian higher education system. Areas of this consequence have been due to regulatory and structural weaknesses on the one hand and legal loopholes on the other hand. Intervention variables such as the creation of economic misuse of higher education and political pressure and competition have been effective in adopting this strategy. The results show that the ratio between higher education and employment in Iran is low and more than 40% of university graduates are not employed in the country's employment system. Therefore, the central demand on the need-oriented in higher education and employment in Iran is high and hence the ratio between the two is low. Accordingly, the systematic approach to using higher education outputs as inputs to the employment system has not been established and the systematic approach cannot be established in the two systems in Iran.

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