The Impact of the Graduation Projects of Economics and Administrative Sciences Students Enrolled at Al-Quds Open University on Supporting the Industrial Sector

Abstract

This study has explained the role of students-graduate research of

Administrative and economic sciences program at Al-Quds Open University

in supporting the industrial sector through the establishment of links and

coordination between the university and the industrial sector, as it was

visualized from the point of view of QOU academic supervisors, who are

incharge of supervising graduation research. The sample size of this study

consist of 36 academic supervisors, 21 of them are Ph.D holders while the

rest of them or 15 are masters degree, covering 9 educational regions from

West Bank from a total population of 142 academic supervisors. The study

figured out through the questionnaire and the interviews interpretation that

QOU did not pay an adequate attention, and/or interest in studentss

researches. It was also revealed that professional relationship between these

firms and QOU are not in the required level. Since the industrial sector

showed out no interest to rely on QOU experience in such researches. It was

also noted that students did not give actual interest in researching in this

sector, and consider the aim of such researches is for passing the subject

only. This was confirmed through the acceptance of research null hypotheses

results. Which revealed that there are no significant differences among

respondent’s perceptions regarding the role of such researches in QOU in

supporting the industrial sectorss firms. This matter was the same, except in

two fields only according to specializing independent variable, which means

that some academic staff wishes to promote cooperative relationships with

industrial sector. These were in the fields of minimizing the gab in knowledge

and technology between QOU and the industrial sector firms. This variation

was in favored of production, finance and marketing fields, which are

considered as the major pillar that serves these firms.