Analysis of Development Plans of the Country in Higher Education Division (After the Revolution)

Iran is one of the pioneers in the development planning among the developing countries. The first development plan in Iran was implemented in 1948 and so far nine development plans (five programs before and four programs after the revolution) were designed and implemented. In general, most experts in the field of development do not evaluate the performance of these programs positively. In the knowledge age that higher education and university are considered as rationality basis of the society and higher education centers are generators of producing competent human resources and future prospect also has stressed the importance of science and technology, reviewing higher education programs and identifying the positive and negative factors of the program are fundamental. In general, the performance of development programs of the country in higher education after the revolution indicate that the success of development program of this part, mainly is in the base of qualitative rather than quantitative goals and in general we observe lack of reasonable relationship between the important objectives and executive policies. In other words, in the programs related to higher education, research and technology, there are many significant differences between the plans and their execution.