الملخص الإنجليزي
This study aimed to acknowledge the training needs of the academic heads of departments in the colleges of Sultan Qaboos University from their point of view. In addition, it aimed to study the effects of some variables like nationality, gender, age, academic qualifications ,experience in Sultan Qaboos University, previous experience as a head of departments, and the type of department in scientific or humanities colleges in the level of the training needs of academic head sections at SQU. The committee of the study consisted from all of the heads of the academic departments in the colleges of Sultan Qaboos University who were (67) head of department in total. The good from the returned study tool for statistical analyzing were (46) questionnaire sheet which was(68,66%) of the questionnaires submitted to the academic heads of departments of Sultan Qaboos University. The overall reliability coefficient of the questionnaire as a whole was worth (93), a very high value indicates that a valid tool to verify that targets were prepared, Also the mean, the standard deviation, differentiation and T test were used . The study indicates the following results: - There are a degree of training need for one substantive for a medium (37) and a few for two substantive of the questionnaire axles. - Organizing the fields of study according to the needs of training as following: field of community service, the administrative field, the academic field.
- The results of the study indicated that there are no statistical differences between the level of training needs and the variables, except for the nationality variable, because there were statistical differences for the Omani heads of academic departments in the administrative field and all the fields and it has been agreed on a number of recommendations that are based on the study results, some of which were: - Design and implement training programs for heads of academic departments at Sultan Qaboos University to meet their training needs in the field of community service and administrative and academic, as the study described in the table (18). - Conducting training courses for heads of academic departments at Sultan Qaboos the University to master the soft skills such as communication skills. - Conducting training courses for heads of academic departments at Sultan Qaboos University of enables them to provide training courses for the local community as part of community services.
- Focus on training during working in the administrative field for the members of the faculty of the Omanis to take over as Chairman of the academic department.
-Designing a training program to prepare the Omani members of the teaching committee before nominating them to be the heads of the academic department in the university.
-Establishing a Unit which is specialized in training & development of the academic staff in the university, to study their needs in their field on continuous biases.
