Towards Building a Creative Partnership System between University and Business Sector - Experience and Model for Sustainable Life Cycle

it has been building a system of creative partnership between the university and the business sector; it is characterized by vitality and sustainability. It includes the components of the immediate environment: the university, the business sector, market forces. The working mechanisms and fulfilment stage of the system have been described, including: preparatory stage, feasibility study, requirements, designing the new system, providing resources, implementing, and finally evaluating the results, and the challenges which it will face. This research ends by some recommendations that start with the deployment of Awareness of the importance of creativity partnership and benefits for all partners.

Social problems at the Universities of Tishreen and Kalamoon students (Field social study)

This study aimed to analyze the content of the most important social problems facing the Tishreen government universities students and Kalamoon, knowledge and compare them and arrange them according to their importance in the light of the university type, and also conceived a proposal to the role of universities to address these problems and their possible solution and improve the social and academic performance in both universities. The researcher has used descriptive analytical method which describes the phenomenon studied the quantity and quality and the method used is content analysis of the writings of students stood on the most important social problems and study tool questionnaire which is regulated and controlled in terms of the text of the question contained therein and help the researcher to develop the respondents Skjologih one condition. The results of the study can be summarized that the most important social problems are the problems of college life and Curriculum and Instruction by 57.8%, and finally came the problems related to the state of health by 3.5% of the total sample.. The study recommended to develop a comprehensive strategy at the university to cope with such problems when students and find appropriate solutions and also create a partition to follow students' problems and work to mitigate them and not close to the students and can include psychological and social structure clinic, medical clinic of the University as well as link outputs of higher education to the labor market in the local community.

The extent to which the postgraduate students in the Faculty of Computer Engineering at the University of Damascus possess computer skills Field study in the Faculty of Informatics - University of Damascus

This study aims at identifying the extent to which the postgraduate students in the Faculty of Computer Engineering at the University of Damascus possess the skills of using the computer by measuring their ability in using the computer according to the following fields: (Computer skills, computer skills, operating system skills, skills of using ready software, and skills of using the information network and the Internet). A special questionnaire was constructed to achieve the objectives of the study and presented to a group of competent arbitrators with the expertise to verify its validity and consistency. , Where the stability coefficient (0.94) was also used, and the Statistical Package Program (SPSS) was used to analyze the data Finally, the study led to a number of results which, in turn, led to some suggestions that could benefit computer workers, professionals and specialists in college, university and society.

Prevalence of smoking habit and associated factors among students of Al- Andalus university of medical sciences

Background: smoking is the major cause of many chronic diseases and a growing public health problem in the world. - Aim: the aim of this study is to determine prevalence of smoking habit and associated factors among students of Al-Andalus university of medical science. - Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted from October academic year 2017 to March academic year 2018 on 300 students in Al- andalus Medical University. A systematic stratified sampling method was used. Data collected by self-administrated questionnaire. - Results: out of the 300 respondents, 166 students were smokers giving a prevalence rate of 55%.The prevalence of smokers were much higher in males than females (79.5% and 20.5%, respectively). 72.2% of students started smoking at the age of less than 20 years. There were a significance differences between faculties (P= 0.02) , which faculty of medicine reported high percentage. - Conclusions: This study directs the attention to the fact that problem of smoking among university students has important contributing personal and socio demographic factors. The study recommends integrating health awareness programmes about smoking hazards in the medical education curriculum.