The Internationalization of the Higher Education in the National Interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Document Type : Original Independent Original Article

Authors

1 School of International Relations, Tehran, Iran

2 Molavi Higher Education Institute, Tehran, Iran

3 MolaviUniveristy, Tehran.

Abstract

The study of the growth of developed countries, suggests that higher education system has always been one of the pillars and fundamental factors of development and economic, social, and cultural rights in Iran. Thus, the countries that want to maintain comprehensive, balanced, and sustainabledevelopments, should make sure that theirsystem is balanced and thedevelopment of their higher education is sustainable. Global developments and their impacts on the system and the structure of the 80s also penetrated the paradigm of "world shrinkage" and the consciousness of the inhabitants of the earth on the concept of "small world" has not only caused "subjective" aspects, but also all of the "objective" aspects of “individual” and “collective”life. Thefocus on the higher education is one of the reasonable and documented examples in these criteria. In this article, we will look at comparative and theoretical framework research based on Mark Knight’s perspective on the study of adaptive infrastructure of higher education,explainits role in the development process towardthe national interest, and finally, analyze the current status of infrastructure in the country and the emphasized role of education in the national development process to identify existing gaps in the field based on governmental documents such as Vision 1404, the proposal related to the accomplishment of the object in the exploitation of this opportunity in the country.

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