Proposing the foresight framework in Iran higher education governance

Many of higher education institutions, given concerns about the cost and value of higher education, are trying to plan for a emergent future and to survive the severe pressures of public oversight, low budgets, and competition for students and resources. The changing conditions in the mechanisms of providing higher education services, innovations in the financing of the university system, climate change, future cultural-territorial issues, the student population and the future workforce highlight the need for adopting a future-oriented and interdisciplinary approach to the dimensions of governance in the higher education sector. In this study, by examining future texts, higher education research and future studies models that have an interdisciplinary nature, a qualitative framework is presented by combining processes and concepts with the help of expert methods. The main purpose is to implement a higher education foresight canvas in the field of higher education and governance advices in relation to the future. Foresight canvas leads to extracting alternative futures of higher education, analysing emergent forward environment and also designing roadmap for governing of this field.