أسباب عدم مواءمة مخرجات التعليم العالي لمتطلبات سوق العمل السعودي

Abstract EN

Study’s Objective measuring the attitudes/trends of each of academics and human resources officials in the private sector towards the causes leading to lack of harmonization between the outputs of higher education and the requirements of the Saudi labor market, and the skills the University should bestow upon its graduates in aptness to the requirements of the Saudi labor market, and attempt to reach some of the recommendations that may help to achieve the harmonization.

Was used the analytical descriptive method to study the problem and its qualitative and quantitative characterization.

The study’s preliminary data was collected using a questionnaire, with a stratified sample of academics from the Arts and Sciences faculties based on (218) individuals, and a stratified sample of human resources officials in the private sector based on (270) individuals.

The study reached to the conclusion that the most important causes of the lack of harmonization is the increased enrollment in higher education, the inadequate academic guidance in directing admitted students to the specialties needed in the labor market, the lack of curricula development, the university graduates’ lack of practical experience, and non proficiency in English language among university graduates.

The most important skills are work ethics, practical experience and English language proficiency.

The main recommendation is the coordination between officials of both universities and the private sector in identifying the labor market’s needs of specialties and skills.