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Article Title: Academic and Social Problems Facing the Student of Health Colleges (IN JAZAN KSA) and Their Relationship to the Quality of the Educational Process
by Amal Ramadan Abd Elhalim

Abstract:
University works in multiple ways to provide all the material, educational and psychological needs of the university students in order to achieve the social role of the university, including graduates of a high level of efficiency and quality to meet the needs of the labor market. This affects the quality of the output. Descriptive survey method was used to identify the academic and social problems of the female students in the Medical campus (1)Jazan University and correlate problems to the level of their performance, and finally to outline the order of problems� axes which face the students and conceive proposal preparation to overcome these problems. To achieve the objectives there was a questionnaire consists (of 64) phrases, which were distributed into (8) axes and applied to a random sample of (235) at different levels in the first semester of the academic year 2015-2016. The study showed that: the problem of University library ranked the first place then University environment problems, Curriculum problems, academic guidance problems, psychological and social problems, field training problems, time table problems and faculty staff problems successively and identified the most important variables affecting the academic performance of the students. There is significant correlation relationship between each of the University environment, curriculum, University library and field training on the one hand, and the cumulative average of the other hand, no significant correlation relationships between the academic performance of students in the study and time table, faculty staff where it appeared that the correlation coefficients were not significant at the 5% level. As a proposal preparation to overcome this problems, the study recommended that the colleges administration should conceive proposal for mechanisms to confirm how to deal with the academic problems in the college through comprehensive strategy to solve and prevent academic problems faced by the students ,create extensive places for rest, providing electronic college library, and reconsider some courses that need attention to the academic guidance processes, and of balanced scales of study and examination tables.

Keywords: academic problems, social problems, the level of academic performance and GPA

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