شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

Today's societies are experiencing an economy characterized by the rapid growth of knowledge, the rates of scientific discoveries, and technological innovations. As societies transformed from industrial societies into societies based on information and knowledge, material capital is no longer the main factor for economic power, but knowledge capital has become the essential determinant of the strength of societies. And possessing knowledge with the ability to employ it, in various fields, has become the main criterion for measuring the progress of countries. Thus, the human element is the real intellectual capital of this economy, because it is the one that produces knowledge, then manages and employs it. However, the reality of university education in Egypt still lacks the ability to respond to these local and global variables, in addition to the educational, financing and technological challenges that it faces, and other economic and social justifications. All of that called for the need to go towards the productive university to provide additional self-financing sources, address the challenges and keep pace with the changes imposed by knowledge economy. (Published abstract)