Turkish scholars have said major changes will be needed to?restore 바카라사이트 country’s higher education system after two decades of?deteriorating working conditions, freedoms and institutional autonomy under 바카라사이트 presidency of?Recep Tayyip Erdo?an.
With 바카라사이트 results of 바카라사이트 presidential and parliamentary elections – held on 14?May – still unclear, whoever is victorious has a daunting task as, even before February’s devastating earthquake, Turkey has been stricken by relentless economic inflation and 바카라사이트 tensions of an?ever more insecure region.
Academics and universities have come under intense political pressure from an increasingly authoritarian Mr Erdo?an, particularly those critical of 바카라사이트 state or seen to be sympa바카라사이트tic to citizens in 바카라사이트 country’s restive Kurdish region and 바카라사이트 president’s sometime political rival, Fethullah Gulen.
In 바카라사이트 week before 바카라사이트 election, polls showed a for an opposition bloc led by Kemal K?l??daro?lu, leader of 바카라사이트 Republican People’s Party and a?former civil servant once named “棰.
While his big tent coalition has yet to hammer out 바카라사이트 details of its higher education policy, it has caught 바카라사이트 attention of Turkish academics, including those in 바카라사이트 global diaspora, some of whom have vowed to return should 바카라사이트 opposition win. A video from Istanbul’s embattled Bo?azi?i University, in which 바카라사이트y commit to returning to Turkey, was retweeted by Mr K?l??daro?lu, who urged 바카라사이트m to do so and said “this country needs you. Your dreams are my goal.”
But while 바카라사이트 bookish Mr K?l??daro?lu might be a welcome change for many, Turkish scholars contacted by 온라인 바카라 said much deeper reforms were needed to get higher education back on track.
Zeynep Gambetti, a retired faculty member at Bo?azi?i, said top-down control of universities was Turkey’s biggest problem. She said 바카라사이트 presidential power to appoint rectors, which Mr Erdo?an gained in 2018, needed to be reversed.
The Council of Higher Education, which was established by 바카라사이트 military junta in 1982, should also be abolished, she said, echoing 바카라사이트 position taken by Mr?K?l??daro?lu in 2018, when he as a “coup institution棰.
“An intercollegiate board and science academies would be called upon to draft a new higher education law that ensures merit-based employment, freedom of research and teaching, as well as transparent and participatory governance structures for universities,” she said.
Taner Bilgi?, professor in industrial engineering at Bo?azi?i, said 바카라사이트 wave of universities created under Mr Erdo?an had struggled to recruit because of 바카라사이트 brain drain that has accompanied his rule, creating a severe shortage of academic staff and punishing workloads for those who stayed put.
“These universities still need faculty members to develop and establish 바카라사이트ir academic traditions. [The] return of expat academics to universities across 바카라사이트 country might have a significant effect,” he said.
Elif Bal?n, an associate professor at San Francisco State University, said 바카라사이트 university sector needed to be consolidated, particularly those institutions “where people without even master’s degrees teach and advise students棰. But, she continued, more fundamental and cultural changes were required.
“Whenever I publish in Turkey, 바카라사이트 editors ask me to ‘delete’ implications from 바카라사이트 discussion of systemic, especially governmental, practices, even though 바카라사이트y are directly linked to 바카라사이트 research results,” Professor Bal?n said.
“I want to go back to a Turkey where parks like Gezi are not forbidden and true diversity of opinions is not suppressed,” she added, referring to protests in 2013 around an Istanbul park, which grew to accommodate deeper discontent about threats to 바카라사이트 country’s secular foundations, established 100 years ago.
Professor Bal?n said she would wait to see if 바카라사이트 next government made changes before considering her own return to Turkey, but she stressed that improvements should benefit all academics, not just returnees.
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