Financing education in Iran has faced a serious crisis and therefore developing a plan to ensure adequate financial resources has become necessary. This study is a research report in which the mentioned plan has been developed by answering to the question from the perspective of experts and scholars what are the categories and the order of priority of policies and actions related to financing educatio? In this regard, draft of a plan was prepared with documentary method and it was validated by using mixed method and Delphi method. Then by designing a questionnaire (including 7 policies and 55 actions) they were prioritized by quintet groups of professors, planners, executors and authorities and then the results were analyzed by using Kruskal-Wallis and Friedmans tests. The results showed that from the perspective of experts, triple policies of convincing the government to perform duties stipulated in the constitution in order to ensure adequate finance, encouraging participation of governmental and public institutions (non-educational) in financing education and development of organized public participation through education councils of different districts are prioritized, respectively. Then, the actions were also prioritized and the consistency of views of quintet groups on determining the priorities were assessed.
Abdollah Ansari. Financing Public Education in Iran: An Action Plan.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/ibm.2016.3070.3076
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1993-5250/ibm.2016.3070.3076