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  1 - ارزش‌آفرینی برای آموزش عالی با عبور از بحران‌های عصر توده‌گرایی
  Somayeh Fereidouni
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  2 - Creating value for higher education by overcoming the crises of the populist era
  Somayeh Fereidouni
  The massification of higher education is a phenomenon that quickly swept the world after World War II. Iranian higher education has also faced this phenomenon in the last two decades and its statistical evidence can be cited in various dimensions of higher education. Re More

  The massification of higher education is a phenomenon that quickly swept the world after World War II. Iranian higher education has also faced this phenomenon in the last two decades and its statistical evidence can be cited in various dimensions of higher education. Research shows that various crises such as the crisis of quality of higher education, reduction of financial resources, little expansion without regard to the necessary infrastructure, unemployed graduates, social change and such factors are among the consequences of low expansion policies in Iran with concerns about improving access to education. It had a great start. A review of global studies also shows that the current crisis of higher education in Iran is not different from what happened after the massification in many countries. But it is important to note that different countries, while experiencing similar crises, have used different strategies to overcome the challenges of mass higher education, and these differences in strategies are rooted in the differences in the context of higher education in each country and its characteristics and requirements. Therefore, in the present study, the researcher, using the combined Swat-TOPSIS model, first obtained strategies appropriate to the Iranian context, to overcome the crises resulting from the quantitative expansion of higher education, and in the next step, using the TOPSIS technique, the strategies obtained Has been prioritized. Findings show that the mission-orientation of universities, the dominance of systems thinking in the higher education policy-making system and financial independence are the three main strategies among the eight strategies obtained in the present study to overcome the crises of higher education in Iran Manuscript profile
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  3 - برنامه ریزی راهبردی گردشگری استان سمنان با استفاده از تکنیک META SWOT
   
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  4 - The Analyses of In-service Training Programs for Personnel of Kerman National Gas Company based on SWOT Model
       
  The purpose of this study was to analyze the in-service training courses for personnel of Gas National Company of Kerman province based on SWOT model. This study is an applied and descriptive-survey research. The statistical population consists of all Personnel of Natio More

  The purpose of this study was to analyze the in-service training courses for personnel of Gas National Company of Kerman province based on SWOT model. This study is an applied and descriptive-survey research. The statistical population consists of all Personnel of National Gas Company of Kerman province who has participated in in-service training courses (122) and the sample includes 100. The instrument was a researcher made questionnaire. The validity of instrument determined 0.88 via experts’ opinions and the reliability estimated 0.86 according to Cronbach's alpha. In order to data analysis, SPSS software and SWOT analysis were used. Results showed that the highest priority of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats were as followed respectively: high outcome of training courses in out of company with primary coefficient of 419, inequality of knowledge level of participants at the beginning of a training course with primary coefficient of 387, influence of out of province training courses on increasing knowledge of personnel and their happiness and changing their moods with primary coefficient of 430, and inattention to evaluation results and do not pay persuasive reward harmonizing to personnel’s needs to their participations in out of company training courses with primary coefficient of 329. Accordingly, the best strategy for this company is attacking one, so that the authorities, using the attacking strategies that have presented in this research, could maximize the opportunities. At the end, we presented the most important ways to improve in-service training courses of personnel of Gas National Company of Kerman province based on the research results. Manuscript profile