موجهات الترخيص لفروع جامعات عابرة للحدود في المملکة العربية السعودية على ضوء التحديات العالمية والمحلية

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Associate Professor of Education Assets - Faculty of Education - Hafr Al-Batin University

Abstract

 
The study aims to identify the main guidelines for giving licenses to Branches of Cross-border Universities in the  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It aims to reveal  differences of statistical significance between the means estimation of sample response on the  the main guidelines for giving licenses to Branches of Cross-border Universities in the  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that relate to the study variables. These variables are: Sex, specialty, nationality and academic status.
To achieve these objectives the study used the descriptive method and prepared a survey questionnaire consists of (32) paragraphs  that include social , economic, educational and political guidelines.  The questionnaire was applied to a sample consisted of (305) teaching staff  at Dammam university. The study reached the following:
- Teaching staff see guidelines that  drive toward license to some Branches of Cross-border Universities in Saudi Arabia, in a general high level.
- Educational guidelines come first followed by social and political ones.  Economic guidelines come last.
- The lack of statistically significant differences between the means estimation of sample response on the  the main guidelines for giving licenses to Branches of Cross-border Universities in the  Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that relates to the variables of sex, specialty, nationality and academic status.
It has been clarified some of positives and ways of supporting and some negatives and ways to avoid them in the light of the visions of future changes,globally and locally ,in the case of saudi arabia has a dopted a license to Branches of Cross-border Universities.

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Faculty of Education Journal Alexandria University
Volume 26, Issue 5
part 1
October 2016
Pages 229-308

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