The Role of Business Administration Colleges in Higher Education Institutes in Reducing Graduates' Unemployment: Alternative Graduation Project Model

Abstract

This research paper has focused on the role of the Administrative and

Economic Sciences colleges in Palestinian higher education institutions

in minimizing the unemployment problem among graduates by proposing

a new model for graduation project for students of the Administrative and

Economic Sciences colleges in order to encourage entrepreneurship small

business projects to reduce the problem of unemployment in Palestine, due

to the increasing ratio of unemployment among Bachelor graduates degrees,

where as Government has freeze the recruitment process, and the limited

capacity of the Palestinian labor market.Data was collected in this research

based on the experiences of Arab and foreign experiments and some of the

studies related to the subject matter, and the experience of the researcher

during his study in the undergraduate as a student, and his experience while

teaching at Al-Quds Open University as a teacher.As well as some indicators

of Higher Education figures.The research figured out the reality of Palestine

higher education system and the number of graduates from the Palestinian

universities in general, and graduates from the Administrative and Economic

Sciences colleges in particular, as well as presenting the experience of

students learning this new model from the Administrative and Economic

Sciences colleges at Al-Quds Open University in setting up a profitable

small business project in a simple way and thus the possibility of providing

Self-employment opportunities after graduation rather than be listed in the

unemployed list, as a substitute for the graduation project without missing

the skills of scientific research methodology for students.As establishing a

project by qualified people differs from those they lack such qualifications.

The research illustrated the mechanism of implementing this new alternative

model in parallel with the mechanism of evaluating the students in the final

grade.The most recommendations was: local universities should hold a

workshop for Deans of scientific research and Deans of the Administrative

and Economic Sciences colleges to discuss this idea, and evaluate it.Secondly

the State of Palestine should appoint a legitimate father of the small enterprise

sector in Palestine, whether prepared by university students and/ or the rest

of the society, as small business projects have many benefits in solving huge

problems.