Exploring Requirements of Higher Education System for the Realization of Resistive Economy

This research is conducted to explore requirements of the higher education system for the realization of resistive economy.

The research is a qualitative descriptive one. Interview and documentary studies is used to collect data and thematic analysis method to analyze data. Sample included 10 academic and administrative experts, all lectures of supreme leader and 7 papers and books in the field.

31 themes in 6 topics includingEducation, research, dissemination of knowledge (main functions of higher education), Structure and systems, culture and leadership (main levers for strategy execution) are identified as requirements of the higher education system for the realization of resistive economy.

Contextualization of higher education for the realization of resistive economy requires actions at two levels: first, actions at the level of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Universities, which are the main custodians of higher education in the country, and secondly, actions at the level of the state that is the Superior entity for the higher education and the main custodian of the implementation of the resistive economy.