To examine relationship of supervisors and Students with respect to learning improvement, dissertation and knowledge production is of great importance. To choose a supervisor is one of important decisions made by doctoral candidates. Consequences of this selection as well as proper relationship with supervisor may affect dissertation assessment and continuation of future research guided by the same supervisor.The present study aimed to improve this process and examine its consequences. Initially, through literature review and interview with experienced supervisors of doctoral candidates 20 indicators were identified. Then, a questionnaire developed on the basis of the indicators was administered to 31 PhD graduates in education. Results indicated that supervisor selection and Student-supervisor relationship were found to be relatively satisfactory. Significant differences were also found between graduates in terms of their dissertation marks, tendency to work under the same supervisor for future research, and satisfaction of their choice and relationship. Finally, based on content analysis of open-ended questions some suggestions were made towards improvement of supervisor selection and relationship of Students and supervisors. Results were discussed in the final section of the paper.

Introduction: Applying general bankruptcy rules to banks might cause many legal problems. Distinct characteristics of banks and their important role in the financial system makes many countries use the recovery institution in order to prevent the banks’ bankruptcy. The assessment of Iran regulations shows that any comprehensive laws of recovery have not ever legislated, hence it seems necessary to enact efficient laws in this regard. Due to the distinct social, economic, political, and legal characteristics of countries, it is not possible to provide a consistent model for recovery regulation in all countries. Moreover, translating and copying from other countries should not be utilized to formulate recovery regulations. Therefore, adoption of recovery institutions requires it to be completely analyzed and investigated. Theoretical frame work: This study on the one hand explains the concept of recovery and introduce the most common methods of recovery. On the other hand, it analyses the Iranian regulations in the field of bank recovery and reviews the practical recovery examples in Iran and evaluates their efficiency. Finally, by understanding the legal nature of each recovery method, the one with correct legal basis according to Iranian law (i. e. appropriate to be adopted in Iran) is determined. A legal model that is consistent with the legal principles of Iran is consequently proposed Methodology: This study attempts to answer the main questions of this research based on the analysis of the legal nature of the recovery. It investigates the possibility of adopting the recovery models in Iran by criticizing and comparing various statutes, regulations, and legal doctrines of different countries. Results & Discussion: Bankruptcy is a judicial process that only considers the rights of creditors neglecting public benefit. Recovery, on the other hand, is an administrative process with the aim of allowing bank depositors to continue to meet their liquidity needs by accessing banking services. In addition, in this process, the bank's assets are managed in such a way that the value of the insolvent bank is maintained. In this paper, three widely used methods of bank recovery, which are mergers, purchase and assumption, and payments through the Deposit Guarantee are examined. Regarding the difference between the merger method and the purchase and assumption method, it should be noted that the latter involves the purchase of the insolvent bank’ s assets and the acceptance of its liabilities, while in the former, the insolvent bank shares are sold and solvent Bank becomes the deputy director of the insolvent bank. In addition, in the purchase and assumption method the legal personality of the insolvent bank does not disappear, but in the merger model, the legal personality of the insolvent bank disappears by merging with the solvent bank. On the other hand, the difference between the payments through the Deposit Guarantee Fund and the merger model is that the assignment of the bank commitment to the fund does not remove the contractual liability from the bank. This fact is in contrast to the merger method, which is based on the transfer of the contract. In the Deposit Guarantee Fund, the insolvent bank is still recognized as a party to the contract with depositors. However, in the merger method, the legal personality of the insolvent bank is completely reserved and the solvent Bank becomes its deputy. Conclusions & Suggestions: In this paper a recovery model consistent with the legal principles of Iran is proposed. It is shown that the preparation of the Bank Recovery Law should not be merely an imitation and requires an analysis of the legal nature of recovery methods. The proposed model for Iran, through the mergers as well as purchase and assumption methods, is a bilateral legal act (contract). Similar to the legal systems of some other countries, namely, US, Switzerland and Canada, the permission of debtors and creditors of the bank is not part of the basic structure of the proposed recovery model. However, the imposition of this plan on creditors can only take place if the proposed recovery plan is perfectly appropriate and in the interests of the creditors. The proposed legal model, if payment is made through the Deposit Guarantee Fund, is inherently a contract that is made solely by the will of the Deposit Guarantee Fund. Thus, there is no need for the permission of the depositors and the insolvent bank, because the bank's permission is not a condition for its validity and only deprives the fund of referring to it. In the model, the central bank or deposit guarantee fund is considered as a supervisory authority over the banking system. This authority, based on the estimated costs and conditions of the insolvent bank, takes into account the order of priority i. e. mergers, purchase and assumption, and payments through the Deposit Guarantee Fund. It then applies the proposed model to prevent the bank from going bankrupt. The adoption of an inconsistent law of recovery from other countries, in addition to its social, economic and political effects, could confuse and frustrate the legal system. Therefore, the development of efficient regulations in accordance with the nature of the recovery methods based on the proposed approach is of great importance in the Iranian legal system.

Introduction: Program evaluation is one of the strategies for developing and improving educational programs in every discipline and level of study. It also helps to improve the program effectiveness and efficacy. The aim of this study was to determine the doctoral nursing Students’ viewpoints about the nursing PhD curriculum.Methods: A descriptive study was performed on 20 randomly selected doctoral nursing Students from different universities of Iran in 2004. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews. Then, data was categorized and presented as frequency distribution.Results: The participants mentioned that the courses of PhD program could make their views towards patients more holistic. Ninety five percent of the participants requested an increase in the credit hours of "Nursing theory", "Nursing research methods" and, "Philosophy" courses. Seventy five percent of them mentioned that "Testing and evaluation methods", "Evaluation principles", and "Psychology and Learning theories" courses had overlap with some courses in master program. Ninety percent emphasized on the importance of English course in PhD curriculum. Fifty five percent mentioned that the content of computer courses could not increase Students’ capabilities in regard to the course objectives.Conclusion: The content of nursing PhD program is not flexible, the courses are mandatory, and the content of some courses have overlap with some courses in master program. Revising and planning educational programs according to society’s needs, can help to promote this profession.

Background: Knowing the expectations of supervisors may affect the quality of graduate Students' theses. The aim of this study was to explore expectations of supervisors from PhD Students in the process of performing PhD thesis as a qualitative content analysis design (conventional method).Methods: This qualitative study was conducted on 25 supervisor of Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran in 2014 which were purposefully selected and interviewed. All interviews were recorded and then transcribed.Results: The mean age of participants was 48.6 (SD=6.60) yr. old. After analyzing and coding of data supervisors had 3 expectations from PhD Students. These expectations consists of the task of Students in the process of performing thesis with 5 categories (including selection of subject, preparation and registration of proposal, data collection, writing and defense of thesis and acceptance process of the article), essential pre-requisites for performing thesis with 5 categories (included acceptance supervisor, academic pre-requisites, unrealistic expectations from supervisor, needed cognitive-psychological skills and considering the time) and finally communication with 2 categories (included method of communicate with supervisor and meet the expectations of department).Conclusion: Informing PhD Students regarding the expectations of their supervisors, in the process of performing thesis may reduce unrealistic expectations and ultimately lead to an improved quality of thesis.

The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between religiosity and scientism among female PhD Students of Shiraz University. All PhD Students were statistical research society which included 199 people so no sampling method was used in this investigation. It was a survey study and the data was collected using a questionnaire. SPSS 11.5 software was used for data analysis. Max Weber’s theory of contradiction between science and religion was used in this research. as the theoretical orientation. In general, descriptive statistics showed that more than sixty percent of respondents had moderate religiosity and a negative relationship was found between religiosity as the independent variable and scientific orientation operationalised as B.A and M.A levels of education. However, the relationship between religiosity and scientific activity was positive.    

Al-Suyuti's Al Jame' a Al Saghir is a famous narrative collections of Sunnite compiled alphabetically in terms of initial letter of narratives. This study is to assess methodical degree of aforementioned book in field of dissection of narratives. The present study, based on the systematic hierarchical approach is provided by quantitative content analysis, assesses 400 narratives from this book. While generalizing the results of this book, error rate becomes 5%, so the confidence interval is 95%. The results show that this book performed hadith dissection in 17.3 percent of cases, but it did not perform it in 82.7 percent of cases. About 72.5 percent of dissection cases are accurate ones but 27.4 percent of them are not. The species of inaccurate dissections and their percentages are assessed in detail and some examples from each species along with some reasons about their inaccuracy are given here.

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to build the construction of national identity of PhD Students with a qualitative approach and grounded theory technique. Method:The tools used for data collection were semi-structured interviews and purposeful sampling method was used to select the interviewees and theoretical sampling (theoretical saturation) was used to identify the number of people. The statistical community of the research is PhD Students in the humanities who have been studying for the past decade. Results and conclusion: According to the findings, the causal conditions of this study are language, religion, the value of civilization and ethnic groups in Iran. Humanity takes precedence over nationality. Appropriate education, demands and the position of the people and conscious personal decision-making were introduced as strategic categories, and the result of this coordination is the choice of homeland for life, territorial integrity and national identity.

Introduction: This study aimed to evaluate the current situation of PhD education of medical science fields in Iran and compare it with successful models in developed countries.Methods: In a qualitative design, we systematically collected and analyzed the academic staff’s perspectives that had studied abroad and were involved in training of post-graduate Students in medical fields. In the first step we prepared a conceptual framework based on the findings in brain storming sessions and in-depth discussions. Then in semi-structural interviews, the pros and cons of the current dominant model were discussed and the proposed revisions along with their applications were tabulated.Results: The main challenges in the current training system were listed as no-involvement of departments in the admission of their PhD Students, insufficient attention to meta-capacities of enrolled Students- e.g. their English skill, nonfunctional relationship of the universities with the industry, and poor supervision of doctorate Students. As one of the potential advantages of the research-based PhD training model, it was mentioned that the Students might obtain more capability to address the further needs of the industry and research system.Conclusion: Accordingly, we believe that the advantages of the current system should be kept, nonetheless a revision in the PhD training model, particularly with more attention to the research based training, may address more efficiently to needs in the future. Considering the limitations of the research based model, such a reform should be implemented gradually using a comprehensive road map.