Faculty Stress At The Saudi University

education system of Saudi is old, poorly administers, as compare to with US. Moreover, the US

There is this assumption that professors are like a “caricature” with too much time on their hands that still exists in societal standards, but current professors would most likely disagree, explaining that assumption has died down with the rise of “corporate” university standards (Berg & Seeber, 2016, Kindle 87). The CAUT report identifies the perceptions that at one time, an academic career was seen as a desirable goal, but over the past twenty years that perception has changed to the point where the stress levels in academia exceeds that found in the general population.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the “Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health has emphasized on the importance of professional development of the Nurses. Out of the four key messages of the report, I like to discuss about the key message number 2. “Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression”.

It is difficult to meet the challenge of advancing in your profession when a structured or well-defined professional development for the nursing staff is non-existent. There is positive news, however, outside of hospital facilities. According to a survey conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in 2015, from the year 2010 to 2014, it shows that there has been a steady increase of baccalaureate degree educated graduates (The National Academies Press, 2016). Furthermore, students who enrolled and completed baccalaureate–level education increased by 69 percent in the same study time period (The National Academies Press, 2016). Certainly, students and prospective nurses have taken

Like many less-informed Saudis, after high school I adopted an already existing paranoia of studying. In 2007, studying in America was kind of a no-no (since) after the events of 9/11. I was exposed to the American culture because of many factors. Therefore, I was unusual in that I had an immediate goal, as many young people around my age (without any) had no such constructive aim. Saudis in 2007, did not want to go abroad, so I was one of few people. It’s only become a (recent) trend recently to study abroad. I had no plan nor a back-up plan as to what I should do on my return (“what after return”,). Perhaps we Saudis never thought about tomorrow (religiously thinking), for a Muslim is never advised to bother to think about tomorrow (like) as (it) is written also in the Bible (the book of Christians). My

“In 2006 to 2007, according to the data compiled by the Institute of International Education, 582,984 students from all over the world were enrolled in American colleges and universities in a wide range of fields” (Carter, Paragraph 2, 2008). The United States has the highest number of students who are coming to study abroad than any other countries. Each year, the number of international students coming to the United States to obtain degrees is increasing by thousands, and home countries of these students are primarily India, China and Korea, all located in the whole different continent. But what are the motives of students who are crossing the sea to study? Their goal of studying abroad is to experience diversity and to adapt attitudes

Stress is no new phenomenon. It’s been around as long as man and has captivated scholars and physicians alike. With the growing demand for degrees in the professional world comes the growth of the number of college students. The relationship between stress and college students has become the subject of on-going research. Several studies show that stress in college students is increasing with time and the authors of those studies are attributing this to an increased number of students. Other research seems to indicate that it isn’t necessarily the stress that is increasing but the awareness of it. Increased awareness of stress, and its unique toll on individuals, allows colleges and students to recognize

A quantitative survey consisting of eight main sections and demographic information was given to international students at a Western United States land grant university. The survey’s eight sections assessed students’ level of agreement in the eight following categories: personal life, cultural concerns, academics, university programs, health care, safety, and the International Students and Scholars Office (ISS). The questions were evaluated on a standard 5-point Likert type scale. In addition, open-ended responses were elicited for country of origin and religious beliefs to ensure possibly answers were not omitted by the research team. Questions were divided into the eight categories to make the survey process easier for respondents while also preserving internal validity of the questionnaire. The survey was sent via email through the ISS office to the entire international student population of 862 students. 63 students responded to the survey, giving a response rate of 6.54%. This was significantly lower than the researcher’s target of 25%, but the response rate was typical for this student population (Porter & Whitcomb, 2007).

As previously noted, universities in Saudi Arabia offer two types of education: traditional Islamic and Western-oriented. The Islamic University of Medinah and Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University focus on Islamic law, Quranic studies, Arabic language and social sciences.

Newth (2011) claims that modern day stress seems to be more widespread than ever causing interference with human intellect, emotional and interpersonal functioning. Therefore; I suggest that students will encounter stress and it will impact their academic performance. In this fast pace and performance driven society each organization needs well performing people. The only way we will know what people require to become productive and less stressed is to explore topics as my research question. The topic

It is a well-known fact that the universities have its own subculture and policies. For example, in some educational establishments the relationship between the students and teachers is more formal, while in other universities the students enjoy informal and more open relationship with the professors. It depends largely on the leadership strategy used by the administration. Consequently, the studies conducted within the premises of one campus is limited to a specific area, which makes the results partially biased. For example, Million (2004) uses the same strategy by surveying her own university, which can increase the bias of the researcher. It is not clear why the scholars do not involve the participants from different educational institutions at once in order to strengthen the inner validity of the inquiry and generalizability of the findings.

Thesis statement: Both universities, local or foreign portray their own uniqueness, from the cost of studying to the environment factors and the similarity in experiences.

Once believed to be a low-stressed profession, ‘teaching’ was the most pleasant occupation with less workloads and more flexibility. But today, studies reveal that the teachers undergo a high amount of stress specially the university teachers. Teaching is such a kind of unique profession in which the expectations of student’s guardians are very high regarding to the student’s educational progress, future carrier and about the establishment of the personalities of students along with education (Wilson, 2002). The present pilot study was conducted to identify the factors causing stress among the faculty of Graduate and Post Graduate colleges in Hyderabad, administering a questionnaire. A few coping strategies used by the faculty members to combat stress are also reviewed. Through the conclusions drawn from this study, it can be suggested that the management of the colleges should focus on three things, causes of stress, effects of stress and remedial measures, to reduce the occupational stress of the faculty members. Care should be taken to identify the potential of the faculty members and recognize all of them to be equally important for the student development in particular and college development at large.

Our research topic is stress and life satisfaction and academic performance. With this research topic, our group hopes to find out certain pressing matters that affect the daily livelihood of University students. In general, our research findings will try to answer these questions through the use of descriptive statistics. To make this finding valid, we are using quota sampling and convenience sampling methods to collect the data from the samples. The samples we choose is the undergraduate psychology students.

Unfortunately, the Saudi education system has only focused on high paid, prosperous, and prestigious jobs like doctors, engineers, and lawyers and left basic yet complementary job as nursing way behind. This lack of attention to necessary and complementary jobs, has led the Saudi education system in creating less than 20 percent of the nursing staff working in Saudi today, which in return led into today’s significant shortage in qualified and competent Saudi nurses and to high rate of imported nurses (Sadeeq, 2003).