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Shahla Salem Khalil et al. Transylvanian Review: Vol XXVII, No.
44,September 2019
ABSTRACT
This study highlighted on the concept of governance, and the extent of its application in educational
organizations, specifically in the Technical Institute of Kirkuk, to achieve this, a deliberate sample of the Institute's
board members, directors of the divisions, and heads of units at the Kirkuk Technical Institute (30) was approved
for the purpose of exploring their views on governance, and the extent to which the research institute can reach the
ranks of civilized educational organizations, which is a priority for its implementation. Based on the statistical
analysis of their answers, the study was able to reach a set of conclusions that were the basis for the construction of
the proposals, which we hope will be useful to the research institute, and to its counterparts from other educational
organizations.
Keywords: Educational Governance, Objectives and pillars of educational governance, Principles of implementing
educational governance.
Corresponding author: shahlaalbadee@ntu.edu.iq dr_sawsanibrahimrajab@ntu.edu.iq
aymanalnymy1962@ntu.edu.iq
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develop, progress, continue and grow, and thus
Introduction achieve their goals as efficiently as possible.
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It is a health and vital factor. It is a system of 1. Economic pillar: which includes decision-
immunity, protection and activation, governing making processes that affect the activities of the
movement, controlling direction, protecting and educational sector from an economic point of view,
securing the integrity of all behaviors and integrity of take into account the decisions that affect educational
behaviors within." Organizations, for which a safety organizations, and the extent to which these
fence is created, and an effective and clear protective organizations perform their role in society from the
barrier "(Al-Khudairi, 2005), is also defined as" a set economic point of view.
of laws, regulations and decisions aimed at achieving 2. Political pillar: means the decisions that are
quality, performance excellence by choosing formulated and related to the formulation of policies,
appropriate, effective methods to achieve the plans procedures, and general controls governing
and objectives of the company or The Foundation educational organizations.
"(Halawa, Taha, 2011). Also considered among the 3. Administrative pillar: It includes the special
indicators of environmental sustainability ESI to list system that is concerned with the good management
on the analysis of the critical factors in environmental of the educational organization.
performance, such as low population density, Second: The objectives of the governance of
economic activity, the type of government and educational organizations and their importance
governance (Abadi. 2013). Proper and sustainable application of the
Most of the sectors concerned with governance principles of educational governance in supporting the
and diligence in their implementation, including the performance of educational organizations in general,
education sector, where educational organizations, as well as achieve many of the objectives, which are as
especially universities contribute to the achievement follows: (Khalil, 2005)
of development in all aspects of social, economic,
1. Strengthening the transparency, accounting
administrative, health, universities are an important
and auditing procedures to enable performance
and vital part of society, they are linked to reciprocal
control at any stage.
relations with all parties In addition to being the
2. Improving and developing the educational
main artery that is indispensable in building,
management of the organization, while building a
developing and developing society (Shahrani, 2016),
sound strategy, supported by sound decisions, taken
and for the purpose of universities to play their role
in accordance with sound principles that can lead to
and to the fullest had to be upgraded through the
raise the efficiency of performance.
adoption of a system Integrated solution It also
3. Avoid any crises in the administrative and
enhances the educational value of the organization
academic work.
and develops its performance in a manner that
4. Strengthening the confidence of the society and
ensures transparency, accountability in work,
all beneficiaries, dealers and employees of educational
determining what results have been achieved, as well
organizations, while ensuring the best return on their
as indicating the level of participation by all parties in
outputs, as well as their participation in building the
decision-making. The work and duties stems from the
economic development of the society.
formal procedures and policies recorded and issued in
5. Ensure that all beneficiaries of the work of the
accordance with the laws and orders, and controls the
educational organization are treated fairly.
code employed by the educational organization.
6. To find the structure through which the
Educational governance can be defined as “the system
objectives of these organizations, and means to
through which educational organizations are guided
achieve those goals and follow-up performance.
and managed, defining rights and responsibilities
7. Review and amend the laws governing the
between different parties within a set of laws and
performance of the education sector and its affiliated
procedures that ensure accountability, oversight,
organizations.
transparency, integrity and participation of all
parties, in order to strike a balance between The application of the principles of governance is
Economic, social, and collective goals in these important for educational organizations, and this
educational organizations ”(Mohammed, 2011), importance can be shown through the following:
defined as“ a system based on rationality, (Hefnawi, 2005).
transparency, an implicit, controlled system based on
1. Ensure compliance with laws and regulations
principles, ideals, and ethical values, and includes the
issued regarding the implementation of the
existence of an administrative entity within each
governance of educational organizations.
state, institution or Organization or project
2. Achieve the maximum possible use of
"(Karawani, 2016).
accounting and internal control systems, and work to
The concept of governance in general, and
develop them, and improve their performance, to
educational ones in particular according to the United
achieve performance efficiency, maximize their
Nations Development Report is based on three pillars:
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scientific value, as well as improve academic and participation, the educational objectives of the
administrative practices guaranteeing the integrity organization are not achieved properly. The
and fairness of transactions and the accuracy of participatory process is through the strategic
information issued by them in order to achieve the planning developed by the educational organization,
best degrees of transparency, Benefit the educational and the development of a clear vision and mission of
sector as a whole by increasing capacity for growth, the educational organization, and the leadership of
and development. committees, meetings and workshops that will
3. Protecting the rights, especially the rights of maximize the chances of achieving the objectives of
employees of different administrative levels, job educational organizations.
grades, and other stakeholders related to the
organization, including students and graduates, from Third principle: Matter
the possibility of collusion between the management This principle is linked to the need to activate the
of the educational organization and any other party role of laws, decisions and the issue of all who violate
through which the reconciliation of one party can be it; this is applied to all individuals in the educational
achieved at the expense of the other parties. organization of workers, students, and any other
4. Establishing a culture of preparing an party associated with this organization and at all
integrated scientific curriculum for the work of the administrative levels without discrimination;
educational organization, which helps its provided that this principle is exercised positively,
administration to achieve the best results from targeted It is to achieve high quality outputs, leading
supervising and supervising the academic, scientific, to education to discrimination, and thus achieve the
and administrative activities and activities, and objectives of the educational organization at the
reducing its negative effects on the educational strategic level.
organization, the education sector, and society as a
whole.
Fourth principle: Transparency
Third: The basic principles of the governance of The governance framework in educational
educational organizations, and mechanisms for their organizations should include ensuring adequate
application disclosure of methods of exercise of authority,
The management of educational organizations in performance appraisal, as well as the academic and
general needs a set of principles, laws and regulations scientific results of the organization; this can only be
under which they achieve their objectives, and this is achieved by ensuring the free flow of information and
done only by following a set of principles of the openness of the educational organization to all
governance through which it reaches the achievement staff, students and any party. This is achieved when a
of its objectives, including these principles: (Abdul culture of freedom of expression takes root,
Samad, 2011), (Mohammed, 2011) (Abdul Hakim, facilitating the exercise of the right to participate in
2011), (Customer, 2017) decision-making.
First principle: There is a need for an effective Fifth principle: Justice and inclusiveness
framework for the governance of educational It means equality and justice among all
organizations employees and students in the educational
This framework should include the foundations organization, and that anyone of them has the right to
that ensure transparency, and ensure its efficiency claim his entitlements, as well as justice that keeps
and effectiveness, to achieve positive performance them away from favoritism, which leads to the
results. These foundations should be framed by laws achievement of the goals of the educational
and regulations that distribute and define the organization through a clear vision, mission and plan.
responsibilities of the various regulatory, supervisory Based on the above, governance in educational
and executive authorities of the educational organizations principles to ensure the achievement of
organization. the objectives of their adoption, but the achievement
of these goals can only be through the adoption of
Second principle: Participation mechanisms that have the capabilities, skills that
It means effective cooperation and positive enable educational organizations to achieve the
participation of the educational organization with the highest value of governance and principles, and
society in which it operates and for it. The mechanisms of governance of educational
relationship between educational organizations and organizations are "The set of tools by which the rights
society in all its components is a participatory, of all employees, students, the community and any
complementary relationship. This requires a wise other party directly or indirectly associated with the
strategic vision. Without broad community educational organization can be protected through
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proper application of the principles of governance in which its practical part will be applied and for the
general, with effective control over the actual purpose of achieving the objectives of the study.
performance of the performance of these [1]- The information received was relied on
organizations. "The mechanics of the following: (Atwa, Kirkuk Technical Institute at http://www.fte.edu.iq.
Ali, 2012).
Second: Test the hypothesis of the study
A- Internal mechanisms aimed at achieving
Table (1) shows the results of the statistical
control over the performance of educational
description (arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and
organizations, including:
order of importance according to the respondents'
1. Strong and effective internal audit answers) on the principles of governance in
management. educational organizations through the responses of
2. An independent audit committee which the respondents. The following table shows the
functions efficiently. following:
3- Implementing an advanced information
1. Respondents respond to the need for an
technology system in the organization.
effective framework for the governance of educational
Stressing the proper application of local and
organizations
international accounting standards.
The responses of the respondents according to the
B- External mechanisms, which play their paragraphs of this indicator are high, as they
supervisory and supervisory role over the educational reflected their views on the importance of the
organization, including: principles of the governance of educational
organizations, and the need to apply these principles
1. Government bodies and supervisory bodies on
properly in all activities and operations of the
educational organizations.
organization researched, where the respondents'
2. The External Auditor of the Educational
opinions with this indicator were positively agreed
Organization.
with a general arithmetic average of 4.35 With a
3. Council of the educational organization
standard deviation of (0.74), which reflected the
(University Council, or the Council of the Institute).
existence of acceptable homogeneity between the
Based on the above, we see that the mechanisms respondents and their intellectual orientations on this
of implementing governance are only tools, indicator, the results show that the most prominent
requirements and controls that help governance factors that supported the positive of this indicator is
achieve the objectives of the educational organization. paragraph (1), which provides that "the Institute has
a clear organizational structure in which the roles and
Chapter Three: Field responsibilities of all Individuals working as Ye,
"where it came with an arithmetic mean of 4.44, with
First: Describe the study population and its a standard deviation of 0.61.
sample
2. Responding to respondents
The Technical Institute of Kirkuk (the study
The overall average of the paragraphs measuring
community) is one of the oldest educational
this indicator was (4.07), with a general standard
organizations affiliated to the Ministry of Higher
deviation of (0.96), which shows the importance
Education and Scientific Research, formerly the
attached by educational organizations towards the
Technical Education Foundation, the Northern
participation of all workers in decision-making, and
Technical University (currently) in the province of
the implementation of the task, and follow-up and
Kirkuk. Founded in 1976, the Institute accepts
evaluation of achievement, and consistent with this
graduates of secondary education with its scientific,
indicator paragraph (9) This paragraph came with an
literary, and vocational branches. The Institute
arithmetic mean of 4.94, supported by a standard
includes scientific departments distributed within the
deviation of 0.84, a positive percentage indicating the
disciplines of technology, administrative, medical,
positive orientation of the respondents towards the
applied arts, and agricultural (currently suspended),
importance of working in the spirit of the team, which
and includes (16) academic departments, the Institute
stimulates It is administered by the Higher Institute
seeks to prepare qualified staff, scientific,
and encouraged by FS God to everyone involved in
professional, professional specialized possess
achieving the goals and objectives of the institute and
sufficient skills to accomplish tasks and duties within
its goals.
the disciplines owned by the Institute, as well as other
tasks of upgrading the environment and society and 3. Response of the respondents towards the issue
advancing social, economic and scientific development The general average of the paragraphs of this
[1]. The Institute represents the study community in indicator was (3.86), with a standard deviation of
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(1.008). Paragraph (11) was ranked first in this index. standard deviation of (0.92), and paragraph (16)
At the Institute on their level of performance "the which states "Top management shall observe the
highest arithmetic average (4.14), a standard principles of transparency and clarity in the full
deviation of (0.88). application of regulations and instructions to all
employees of the Institute" in the introduction to the
4- Responding individuals to transparency
paragraphs calibrated for this indicator, with the
The results of the respondents' opinions on the
highest mean (4.36) and a standard deviation of
paragraphs of this indicator indicate that there is
(0.85), which refers to the positive general agreement
high support for its importance within the principles
on the importance of the application of management
of the governance of educational organizations,
Higher Institute of Systems and Instructions on all
specifically in the researched organization. This
For workers and transparently.
opinion supports the general average of (4.12), with a
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General Average 3.86 1.008
Fourth: Transparency
16 The senior management shall observe the principles of 4.36 0.85 1
transparency and clarity in the full application of regulations and
instructions to all employees of the Institute.
17 Senior management allows all employees to know how to manage, 3.76 1.12 5
and spend money allocated to the Institute within the budget.
18 There is a specialized media unit in the Institute, which is tasked 4.22 0.81 2
with introducing the Institute, its activities, regulations and laws.
19 The senior management discloses its policy of awarding rewards 4.10 0.78 4
and thanks to all employees of the Institute.
20 Any problem faced by senior management shall be resolved with 4.18 1.06 3
transparency and clarity.
General Average 4.12 0.92
Fifth: Justice and inclusiveness
21 The regulations and instructions apply to everyone in the institute 4.10 0.78 5
without discrimination or prejudice.
22 Performance evaluation adopted in the Institute objective and 4.30 0.58 3
logical.
23 Senior management adopts an effective and fair incentive system. 4.26 0.85 4
24 The rights of the employees of the Institute are guaranteed by the 4.36 0.85 2
laws and regulations issued by the Ministry of Higher Education
and Scientific Research.
25 The duties and tasks of the employees of the Institute are defined 4.42 0.57 1
in accordance with the university regulations and instructions
issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific
Research.
General Average 4.29 0.72
Source: Prepared by the researcher that based on the results of the calculator. N = 30
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