Zahra Sharafpour; Mahmoud Dehghan nayeri
Volume 28, Issue 2 , July 2024, , Pages 65-99
Abstract
Universities face great challenges in scientific, technological, economic, and international fields. Considering these challenges helps to provide developmental capacities. Therefore, in this study, the risks in Iran's higher education industry have been identified and prioritized. To this aim, a list ...
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Universities face great challenges in scientific, technological, economic, and international fields. Considering these challenges helps to provide developmental capacities. Therefore, in this study, the risks in Iran's higher education industry have been identified and prioritized. To this aim, a list of related risks and risk groups in higher education was first identified by a deep literature review. Then the identified lists were completed and validated through interviews with experts (Delphi technique), after obtaining the convergence of experts, Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation (FSE) based on FMEA was employed to prioritize risk factors and risk groups according to their criticality score which ultimately leads to the overall risk score. According to the results, the most critical risk in the higher education industry is "lack of meritocracy" the most vital risk group is "lack of good communication with the industry" and the critical degree of the overall risk is about 3.75, which indicates the necessity of the risks management in higher education and should be followed up by implementing preventive and control measures.
