Creating Bill of Students Rights and Responsibilities at Helwan University

Gehan M. A. Mostafa; shazly, mona;

Abstract


University is open to all persons who are qualified according to its admission standards unless resource
limitations results in the closure of academic programs in which applicants have expressed interest. Students'
rights refers to a set of rights, responsibilities, and duties under which a student can seek and receive all
educational service, encompass legal and ethical issues in the academic institutions and student relationship,
including a student's right to privacy and to equal evaluation. So this study aimed to creating bill of students'
rights and responsibilities at Helwan University. Operational design was carried out in the twenty faculties at
Helwan University; Quota sampling used a sampling method for gathering representative data from two
categories first category was university students consisted of 1200 students enrolled in four levels at academic
year 2013 / 2014 representative 60 students from every faculty from twenty faculties studied setting at Helwan
University. Second category was academic staff consisted of 40 academic staff 20 were professors and 20 were
assistant professors 2 from every faculty study setting at Helwan University. Self-administered questionnaire
used for the data collection consisted of two parts; the first part is socio-demographic characteristics served to
collect information about age, gender, levels and educational qualification. The second part was 98 items divided
into four components about academic, non-academic rights and responsibilities. The researchers developed a bill
of students' rights and responsibilities based on students' opinions, and second part is an opinionnaire sheet used
for the validity of the created students' bill of rights and responsibilities. The response was 3-point Likert scale
from "strongly agree" to" disagree." The results are evident that; Mean Score in total agreements upon students'
rights were ''1.57 ± 0.37''. While, Mean Score in total agreement upon students' responsibilities were ''1.53 ±
0.41''. There is a highly statistically significant positive correlation between students' scores of agreement upon
rights and responsibilities (p<0.01). In conclusion, there is a highly statistical significant positive correlation
between students' score of agreement upon rights and responsibilities. There was negative statistically significant
correlations were revealed between students' scores of academic responsibilities and non- academic
responsibilities with levels. It is concluded that the proposed students' bill of rights was valid, and effective in
almost all items related to academic and non-academic students' rights and responsibilities were highest score;
this reflects the importance of increasing students' awareness of their rights as well as their responsibilities and
involves the students' rights to be informed about all aspects of the learning process and their involvement in the
quality of education. The study recommends disseminating this created bill of rights and responsibilities in all
universities at the Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt.


Other data

Title Creating Bill of Students Rights and Responsibilities at Helwan University
Authors Gehan M. A. Mostafa ; shazly, mona 
Keywords bill of rights, quota sampling, responsibilities, rights, and students bill of rights.
Issue Date 2015
Publisher Mona M. Shazly
Journal Journal of Education and PracticeI Vol.6, No.4, 2015 

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