Analysis of the challenges in higher education system of Khuzestan province (Case Study: Agricultural Higher Education and Natural Resources Centers

The present study has identified the challenges of the educational system in Agricultural Higher Education and Natural Resources Centers in Khuzestan Province. This research is achieved based on qualitative method and it was done using a strategy based on Grounded theory. In this regard, using a targeted approach and applying the criterion of theoretical saturation, semi structured interviews were conducted with 14 experienced professor and managers of higher education centers of agriculture and natural resources in Khuzestan province. The results of data analysis were separated in to separate concepts with the help of MAXQDA 2018 software. Concepts were classified in the hierarchy of coding in grounded theory in form of 15 categorical propositions. In the axial coding stage, educational factors were recognized as the main category. Finally, the paradigm model of research considering the main category called causal conditions, insignificance and underestimation of the evaluation of teaching quality and evaluation forms, Curriculum inefficiency "as a context, lack of attention and emphasis of the university on importance and role of education, lack of consensus of policy makers and planners on a specific philosophical basis, lack of attention to entrepreneurship as one of the missions of the agricultural university were drawn as intervening conditions and necessary strategies were developed to solve the challenges