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The University’s Role in Developing the Skills of the Knowledge Economy from The Perspective of Students of Yarmouk University’s Faculty of Shari’a and Islamic Studies

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  • Mohammad Jaber Thalgi

    (Yarmouk University)

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The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the university’s role in developing the skills of the students “knowledge economy by surveying the students” opinions on this subject. Therefore, a questionnaire was designed as a tool for study. We based this research study on the assumption that the university had a role in providing the students with additional knowledge which was different from the one that he/she took from either his/her previous education or from other cultural settings. Therefore, this study assumed that, if the university had an active role in the acquisition of these skills, fourth-year students, for example, would have accumulated clearly more knowledge and different skills of the knowledge economy than either first-, second-, or third-year students. If the skills of the higher year students are equal to the skills of the new students, this means that the university’s role is weak in acquiring these skills. The study population consisted of 2645 male and female students enrolled on the bachelor program during the first semester of the 2018/2019 academic year. The sample consisted of 344 male and female students representing 13% of the study population. The study’s results show that there are no statistically significant differences between the students’ academic years. This indicates that the university does not provide an effective addition to the students’ fields of study. Based on these results, we recommend that the university’s academic members develop educational plans that improve the students’ abilities to develop their skills.

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  • Mohammad Jaber Thalgi, 2020. "The University’s Role in Developing the Skills of the Knowledge Economy from The Perspective of Students of Yarmouk University’s Faculty of Shari’a and Islamic Studies," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 11(4), pages 1529-1537, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jknowl:v:11:y:2020:i:4:d:10.1007_s13132-019-00620-5
    DOI: 10.1007/s13132-019-00620-5
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