أثر البيئة والمتغيرات الشخصية على المساهمه الفكرية لأعضاء هيئة التدريس بالجامعات الحكومية السودانية

Abstract

Abstract The intellectual contribution of the faculty staff members is the most important aspect of measuring progress and development of staff members, but there are many factors that affect the intellectual contribution of staff members in Sudanese universities. This study attempts to identify the magnitude of that contribution and the factors affecting it, and then provide information that contributes to their promotion and their development. The University of Khartoum, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Omdurman Islamic University, University of Neelain, and the University of Al-Zaeem Azhari has been selected as public universities in Khartoum State to conduct this study, being of the same the nature. The shared colleges between these universities under study were specified which are the faculties of: engineering, agricult1_1re,_and laboratories, education, trade and economic and social studies. The study resorted to the descriptive analytical survey method for a stratified random sample of staff members of these universities ranking as Assistant Professors, Associate Professors, and Professors. The main hypotheses of the research are that: l. There is a decline in the level of intellectual contribution to Sudanese universities staff members. 2. There is no statistically significant correlation between the intellectual contribution of faculty members and their varying personal attributes (age, gender, marital status, academic degree, qualifications). 3. There is no statistically significant correlation between the intellectual contribution of staff members and work enviromnent in the universities. 4. There is no statistically significant correlation between the intellectual contribution of staff members and the type and amount of training they receive. 5. There is no correlation between the size of the intellectual contribution of staff members and their number in Sudanese universities.

The study found that there was a decline in the level of intellectual contribution of staff members in universities in the Sudan, illustrating that the contribution of over two-thirds of respondents from the staff members was not acceptable. The study also showed a statistically significant relationship between the intellectual contribution of faculty members and each of: The staff members gender, the university in which he works, his administrative responsibilities in the university, sabbatical leave for scientific research, the criteria used to evaluate performance, the way the staff member got his last scientific degree, the type of college that employs the member, whether the staff member received intemal training during his university service or not in: promotion and development of staff members; or any specialized training other than this, and the numbers of staff members in universities. Moreover, the study showed that there is no statistically significant relationship between the intellectual contribution of faculty members and each of: the competition for publishing in international scientific magazines, consultant offices for scientific research and statistics provided to teachers to help organize and analyze data, and the existence of a plan for scientific research in the universities, teaching load of the professor, the promotion system and its relationship with academic accomplishment, the importance of scientific research for promotion, the yearly calendar of the staff member, the conditions of supervision in postgraduate studies, and the standard of administrative leadership in the university, the in service training of staff members in: writing genuine scientific research; computer science; statistical analysis; management, lack of experience in genuine research writing, non- proficiency in foreign languages, lack of proficiency in the use of technology and its utilization in the field of research, inability to use mathematical and statistical methods, lack of training that develops performance in research, writing and translation, and the number of training courses. Therefore, the study recommends hard effort and persistent work to upgrade the level of intellectual contribution of staff members, and to overcome the

difficulties, and in particular the provision of necessary funding, the reduction of brain drain, giving more attention to the promotion and development of staff members and expanding training opportunities for them, and expanding the exchange of experiences with regional and international universities