abolghasem nadery

The main goal of this paper is to present a multi-level model for analyzing the scores of the national entrance exam to universities and higher education institutions.Based on its objective, this research is an applied and a descriptive research for analyzing and explaining the factors influencing the total score of the candidates participating in the university entrance exam. We used data of the 2019 year exam which include information on socio-economic status of the candidates' including educational, health, cultural and economic variables at individual level as well as at the level of counties and provinces of the country and We used the HLM software to stimate the multilevel models.The estimation of the three-level model showed that 94.6% of the changes in the total test score were due to the differences in the individual and family characteristics of the candidates. 3.6% of the changes in the total score were related to the educational, health and cultural factors of the city and 1.8% to the economic participation rate of the province. Cosidering that 5.4% of the changes in the total score are related to the geographical location, it can be acknowledged that the difference in the total score of the candidates is not only rooted in their socio-economic status, but the simultaneous effect of this situation with the level of prosperity of the cities from the perspective of educational, health, economic and cultural factors also contributes to the intensification of the difference in the total score.

Following the advent of knowledge-based economics and the importance of higher education in this approach, over the last decade, there have been numerous laws and policies in the field of higher education. At the same time, in recent years, universities have faced numerous financial challenges that overcoming them, as well as taking advantage of opportunities and appropriate capacity building in this field, require more integrated law analysis And the documents are alright. Accordingly, in this paper, firstly, based on documentary study and expert opinions with an analytical approach, the concept of "financial development of the university" has been addressed and, with the help of the framework derived from it, using content analysis method, 14 laws and upstream documents of higher education have been investigated. The findings of the research show that higher education policies are inequality and lack of comprehensive knowledge in terms of financial development of universities and, along with the consideration of laws in the category of "financing", other financial development components "Cost-effectiveness and cost management", "resource allocation", "institutional arrangements and" environmental factors "should also be considered more than ever before in new policy-making and review of regulations.