In recent years, the importance of higher education (HE) has rapidly developed within many countries. The traditional role of just being a place for educating people and awarding a degree has transformed into a more significant contributor to the welfare of societies and growth of economies. In addition, HE has become a strong medium between the expectations of the students and the requirements of employers in terms of knowledge, skills and degrees. HE has grown within many countries as:

Therefore, traditionally, the importance of HE has been on the achievement of presenting effective discipline knowledge and the “development of more general intellectual and social skills and capabilities.” This perspective was also confirmed by Boden and Nedeva, who have pointed out that one of the tasks of HE is “producing workers so that we can compete in the global knowledge economy.” Teichler and Kehm highlight the functions of HE as general, professional and academic where the professional is “expected to provide a foundation of knowledge relevant for those occupations which are usually taken over by graduates for direct professional training.”