High School and University Admission
By: Prof. Dr. Younes Megdadi
We still live with few days ago with the high school exams (Tawjihi) and our wishes for success for our children and families and their patience for bearing the consequences of the Tawjihi year with its psychological and material details, which has established a societal culture marred by family exhaustion as a compass for the future of these students to enable them to move to a new higher educational stage and within various scientific disciplines and environment Education is completely different from secondary education.
Long decades ago, there was talk about the concerns of high school (Tawjihi) and the achievement average and its clear impact on the thought and discourse of Jordanian society, which does not end, despite some recent amendments to the structure of the general secondary school. From an academic point of view, many academics in universities ask about the relation of general secondary As a basic educational circle with the broad university education circle in its concept and based on specialization in various scientific fields, which stopped those interested in educational affairs, university education and others about knowing the details of this correlation despite their conviction that there is no correlation, whether general and basic information obtained by students and related to a basic educational stage Its ceiling does not exceed the level of remedial courses and some compulsory university requirements, and this leads us to the fact that the high school average has nothing to do with it as the sole criterion for university admission and in scientific disciplines, regardless of the type of secondary school or rate, for example but not limited to what is the relationship of general secondary school with its various tracks (scientific, Literary,...etc.) by studying law, renewable energy engineering, medicine, and others. From this logic, we do not see that the high school average is an extension or link to admission to universities.
We may agree to some extent that the high school average is still the only criterion, and for reasons known to all, as a criterion for achieving justice and fairness among students and groups of society with its components for the purposes of admission to universities and within a central reference and they are distributed to universities according to capacity and vacant seats in universities, but from a future point of view it is not permissible for this criterion to remain alone without the existence of other criteria for the purposes of admission to universities, including all kinds of ability exams, differentiation, and others, despite their cost within the responsibility of universities, and not being satisfied with the average general secondary school achievement alone, and under the pretext of the smart student, and this is not a rule that we accept and is not institutionalized and does not reflect the capabilities Students' real inclinations, talents and desires towards the various scientific disciplines in universities, which everyone aspires to in order to ensure high-level outputs that are able to compete in the labor market in light of the limited job opportunities, believing in the principle of qualitative rather than quantitative education.
Observers believe that the direct admission policy is the most universal, which depends on admission conditions specific to each university, taking into account the minimum limits to ensure the safety of its inputs and outputs and within a series of procedures and tests, which gives universities independence and within competitive frameworks in admission, and improves the ceiling of academic competition between universities based on indicators Academic reputation, and employment opportunities for graduates, which are among the joints of the academic classification criteria. Hence, everyone looks forward to the high school to be a nucleus for improving the university’s inputs, similar to the region and the world countries, and in harmony with the orientations and aspirations of His Majesty King Abdullah II, the great son of Al-Hussein, and his trustworthy Crown Prince, may God protect and preserve them.
