Problems of Scholarship Students at the University of Tabuk and Procedural Mechanisms to Address them (A Field Study)

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the scholarship situation at the University of Tabuk and the problems scholarship students face, highlighting the extent to which these problems differ in relation to gender, specialization, and the country where these students belong, and finally finding a number of procedural mechanisms to address these problems.

The findings of the study show that the mean of the study sample’s estimations of the problems that scholarship students face is average (2.25) for all problems. The economic problems mean is high (2,48), because of the scholarship students' urgent need for money. Moreover, there are statistically significant differences between the mean of the males' estimations and that of the females’ estimations of the overall problems that scholarship students face with a (2,65) mean in  favor of males. There are statistically significant differences between the mean of the males’ estimations of social problems (2,35), and cultural problems (2,32) and the mean of females’ estimations in favor of males'. There are statistically significant differences in the mean in favor of students in scientific specializations compared to the literary specializations at the level of overall problems (3,77) and cultural problems (2,72). Finally, the findings show that students are contented with all the mechanisms used to address these problems , as they are satisfied with the solutions.