Pathology of Governance in Higher Education System in Iran

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the pathology of governance and higher education policy in Iran. To achieve the objective of the case study, quantitative data were first collected and then quantitative data were collected and analyzed based on its findings. The findings indicated that there was a lack of vertical and horizontal segregation (including the lack of coordination of policy-making institutions, mismatches among different policy sectors), structural barriers to higher education policy (including institutional and structural weaknesses , Managerial and political instability, lack of key indicators in assessing the performance of policy makers of science, the lack of a central and accountable system in the country's higher education system), the confrontation between internal and external governance (including the lack of attention to the use of policy science, the lack of alignment of organizations and interest groups in Higher education policy, misunderstandings in the study of university missions and student management The lack of databases (including the lack of monitoring of all approvals, the weakness of information networking and discourse, and the lack of verification of the policy reporting function report) are damages that have hampered higher education governance. Other results of the study also indicated that the "database missing" index with a path coefficient of 0.332 in terms of impact in the first place and the index of "conflict between internal and external governance" with a path coefficient of 249/0 ranked fourth in influencing the pathology of governance and Higher education policy.