75% of graduates of applied scientific university have stable employment
According to IRNA, “Ali Sadr” on Thursday, in the induction and honoring ceremony of the president of Lorestan University of Applied Sciences, referring to the mission of establishing this university and the importance of skill creation, said: The main goal of establishing this university is the skills and entrepreneurship of the graduates of this university.
Referring to the tendency towards university degrees among all the graduates of the country’s universities, he added: the way of recruitment and employment in government agencies and administrations has affected this, and recruitment is based on degrees, which should be corrected.
Sadr said: Applied scientific university is a supervisory university and proper quality and quantity should be established in this university and the centers are the implementers.
Pointing out that the 15 centers of Lorestan University of Applied Sciences should be managed with full supervision, he continued: Students in the vicinity of industry and factories should acquire the necessary skills and meet the needs of the labor market.
The vice president of the University of Applied Sciences also said: This university should provide three aspects of employment, education and professional qualification based on the regulations and approvals of the government board.
He stated that in Lorestan’s applied science centers, we have about seven thousand students in different degrees of associate and bachelor’s degree, he said: this number of students are studying in four areas of management and services, culture and art, industry and agriculture.
Pointing out that there are plans in the field of agriculture and tourism services, and in this regard, we will develop these fields in the province, he said: This matter has been put on the agenda from the current and future perspective of research.
Referring to the agricultural capacity and water resources of Lorestan, Sadr said: These resources are important for tourism and agriculture in the province, and decorative stones and geotourism in Lorestan should be considered.
Stating that three percent of the country’s graduates and students were from Lorestan province, he added: “We have 220,000 students at various levels of applied scientific university centers in the country.”
The vice president of research and technology of Iran’s University of Applied Sciences said: In this regard, departments related to IT and information technology have been presented to different centers in the form of 125 fields, so that skill training can take place in 2 associate and bachelor degrees from October.
He emphasized: People’s enthusiasm should be shifted from government positions and sitting behind desks to skilled employment, and Lorestan, with its many capacities, should benefit from this culture.