Problems of postgraduate students in the College of Education

Abstract

Abstract :

     The paper aims at:

1. Specifying the most important problems facing higher studies students in the College of Education/ Al-Mustansiriya University from their points of view.
2. Specifying the most important problems facing higher studies students in the College of Education for Human Sciences/ University of Diyala from their points of view.

As well as verifying the following null-hypothesis:

• There are no statistically significant differences between the average responses of sample members in both colleges; College of Education/ Al-Mustansiriya University and College of Education for Human Sciences/ University of Diyala on the (0.005) level of significance.

Study Tool:

For the sake of data gathering, the researcher adopted a questionnaire of (70) items distributed to five sections. The results, then, were analyzed via the use of suitable statistic tools.

Scope of the Study:

This paper is limited to higher studies students in the College of Education/ Al-Mustansiriya University and the College of Education for Human Sciences/ University of Diyala in the academic year 2014-2015.

Sample of the Study:

For the sample to be more representative of the properties of the society, the researcher selected all individuals in the society of study of (119) male and female students.

Study Results:

1. The most significant problems facing higher studies students in Al-Mustansiriya University in the descending order of the weighted average and percentage weight are (social and economic problems, university administration problems, curriculum and methodology problems, students' related problems, teaching staff related problems).
2. The most noticeable problems facing higher studies students in the University of Diyala in the descending order of the weighted average and percentage weight are (social and economic problems, university administration problems, students' related problems, curriculum and methodology problems, teaching staff related problems).
3. The T-test results indicated that there were no statistically significant variations between the average responses of the sample members in both College of Education/ Al-Mustansiriya University and College of Education for Human Sciences/ University of Diyala on the (0.005) level of significance.

The paper ends up with the following recommendations:

1. Authorizing the universities to develop and change higher studies norms and regulations.
2. Establishing commissions specialized in collecting information regarding problems and obstacles that might be requiring academic studies and exposing this information to higher studies students to specify the study problem.
3. Establishing a college of higher studies to achieve the objectives of higher studies programs in an effective process.
4. Organizing courses to increase the level of higher studies students in in English.
5. Working on developing and updating higher studies programs and syllables periodically in concordance with the variations of the current phase.