New Trends And Practices In Turkish Higher Education Policy: Teaching Staff Training Program (?YP)

摘要

Two of basic dimensions of lecturers in higher education institutions, who are identified as academicians, are functions of producing knowledge through scientific research and providing students with efficient theoretical and practical education service. Training of academicians as researchers and educators who constitute such manpower in higher education institutions are shaped by current high education policies in a country. Therefore, education programmes implemented to train academicians have a significant role in determining the qualifications of higher education.According to Higher Education Personnel Code number 2914, academic teaching is conducted by three groups known as lecturers, instructors and prelectors with assistants. Academicians who serve under professor, associate professor and assistant professor cadres comprise the faculty members group. Lecturers and instructors are academicians who give lectures in their own fields and implement guidelines. In the group of teaching assistants; research assistants, specialists, translators and education-teaching planners take place.In this paper, current situation of faculty members in our country and their training within the currently implemented higher education policy is being addressed.