دور أبحاث تجرج طلبة برنامج العلوم الإدارية و الافتصادية في جامعة القدس المفتوحة في دعم القطاع الصناعي

Abstract EN

This study has explained the role of students-graduate research of Administrative and economic sciences program at Al-Quds Open University in supporting the industrial sector through the establishment of links and coordination between the university and the industrial sector, as it was visualized from the point of view of QOU academic supervisors, who are incharge of supervising graduation research.

The sample size of this study consist of 36 academic supervisors, 21 of them are Ph.D holders while the rest of them or 15 are masters degree, covering 9 educational regions from West Bank from a total population of 142 academic supervisors.

The study figured out through the questionnaire and the interviews interpretation that QOU did not pay an adequate attention, and / or interest in studentsß researches.

It was also revealed that professional relationship between these firms and QOU are not in the required level.

Since the industrial sector showed out no interest to rely on QOU experience in such researches.

It was also noted that students did not give actual interest in researching in this sector, and consider the aim of such researches is for passing the subject only.

This was confirmed through the acceptance of research null hypotheses results.

Which revealed that there are no significant differences among respondent’s perceptions regarding the role of such researches in QOU in supporting the industrial sectorsß firms.

This matter was the same, except in two fields only according to specializing independent variable, which means that some academic staff wishes to promote cooperative relationships with industrial sector.

These were in the fields of minimizing the gab in knowledge and technology between QOU and the industrial sector firms.

This variation was in favored of production, finance and marketing fields, which are considered as the major pillar that serves these firms.