Title:
ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR OF MONGOLIA

Authors:
Delgertsogt Sugarsuren , Tsevegdorj Battsetseg, Enkhbayar Gerelchuluun, Sodnompil Naranzul and Munkhbat Ulziikhutag ,Taiwan

Abstract:
Mongolia's education sector has undergone major changes in the 20th century. As of 2018 there were140 thousand students acquiring higher education in over 96 institutes in Mongolia. This study focuses on qualitative inquiry aims at identifying the main issues in the higher education sector from academic leaders of Mongolia. In this study, three open-ended questions were distributed among 97 academic leaders in 5 universities. More than 125 completed questionnaires were collected. Through a quantitative content analysis approach, the records were categorized using by NVivo software. This resulted in the emergence of 13 categories. The top four categories with maximum frequencies of records were focused for further evaluation by SPSS. In addition, the comparison of the issues in Mongolia and its segments revealed that some of the issues were common in all the segments.