Aims of Iranian Higher Education Association (IHEA)
The Iranian Higher Education Association (IHEA) was founded In January 2000, on the basis of the improvement and development of new knowledge for public and nonprofit institutions of higher education and was officially approved as the key association for education, research and consultations in higher education by the Ministry of Science, research and Technology of Iran.
The IHEA is a nonprofit, voluntary, professional education association of degree-granting postsecondary institutions, government agencies, and higher education coordinating boards, private educational organizations, and education-oriented businesses.
Its goal is to promote higher education and further the professional development of members working in admissions, enrollment management, financial aid, institutional research, records, registration, scheduling, academic standards, and student progress. The Association gathers and cultivates a lot of excellent academic talents, organizes the new high-level scientific research on academic frontiers and the socioeconomic development of major theoretical and practical issues around the strategies of national & International higher education development.
IHEA encourages professional networks, research, and exchange of information for its members and advocates continuing higher education as a means of enhancing and improving society.
The key research IHEA has become the cornerstone and the pillar of the "12 research Projects" and the "3 national and international conferences”, 25 presentation in different aspects of higher education management and planning” as well as a major component of the