Turkish Higher Education at the Crossroads: Critical Issues of Systemic and Institutional Structures

Autor/in	Celik, Servet
Titel	Turkish Higher Education at the Crossroads: Critical Issues of Systemic and Institutional Structures
Quelle	In: Higher Education Review, 43 (2011) 2, S.18-41 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1609
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Change; Higher Education; Governance; Public Colleges; College Administration; College Faculty; Educational Finance; Financial Support; Educational Demand; Institutional Autonomy; Educational Quality; Quality Control; Accreditation (Institutions); Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsreform; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Fakultät; Bildungsfonds; Finanzielle Förderung; Bildungsanforderung; Bildungsnachfrage; Institutionelle Autonomie; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätskontrolle; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Türkei
Abstract	To boost the social and economic outlook of the country, Turkey has recently initiated educational reform at all levels and especially higher education, including organizational restructuring and expansion for increased accessibility. The swift increase in the number and size of universities has resulted in a challenge to find trained faculty. One important programme to meet this challenge has been the government's sponsorship of students for graduate study abroad in exchange for future service in higher education institutions. This study explores the organisation of the Turkish higher education system and reports the systemic barriers and oppressive structures in the system that stand as solid blocks against any change and transformation the returning scholars could potentially instil. The author argues that sending students abroad to return to their country to improve higher education, without carefully reviewing and eliminating the repressive structures and the domination of power holders at both national and institutional levels, is not enough to attain the higher educational goals that Turkey aspires toward. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10