Using the (University Governance Screening Modified Card) to Evaluating the Level of Governance in Iraqi Universities: A Field Study at the Basra University

Abstract

Education in general and university education in particular play a pivotal role in educational field. Universities play a major role in societies in general, because they participate directly to generation of new knowledge, and because they educate and shape the young generation to be leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, and professionals in all fields of knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to be careful when adopting the university governance system in Iraqi universities, in a way that helps to use all the principles and requirements of university governance in the correct way when implementing. The (university governance screening card) is the most suitable for assessing the reality of university governance, and for revealing the details required by the implementation process the purpose of the research paper is to explore the actual reality of the level of governance implementation in the Iraqi University in comparison with the five dimensions of the university governance screening modified card. The University of Basra was chosen as a field of study. The community was identified with highly qualified and experienced teachers. For data collection purposes, a checklist consisting of a three-point scale was used. To measure the level of opinions of the sample members on each clause or dimension, the evaluation revealed that Basra University needed many procedures’ to build an integrated governance system.