INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY IN TURKISH HIGHER EDUCATION: INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSES TO GLOBAL TRENDS BETWEEN 2000-2017

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2023-5-21

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Kurtoğlu, Mete

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The global landscape of higher education has undergone major transformations in the last two decades. Massification, internationalization, marketization, quality assurance mechanisms, university-industry linkages, new information and communication technologies, life-long learning and student-centered learning approaches have been the main pillars of higher education reforms at the global, national, and institutional levels. In conformity with these global trends, Turkish higher education has experienced a process of rapid massification and expansion since the 2000s. As a result, managing the increasing number of higher education institutions and students and responding to the diverging needs of society became a significant policy concern for the Turkish higher education system. In the sociology of higher education and higher education research literature, 'institutional diversity' is a key term for the debates on managing mass higher education systems and diversification. Accordingly, this thesis aims to analyze these global trends' impact on Turkish higher education at the national and institutional levels, focusing on massification, expansion, and institutional diversity. Expert interviews were conducted to analyze the conditions for massification and institutional diversity at the national level. And for the institutional level, three different types of universities (i.e., Humboldt, international research, and entrepreneurial) were selected to examine their responses to such transformations in terms of continuities and ruptures in their missions and institutional strategies. The findings of the thesis discuss the convergence and divergences of these different types of universities in due course and the obstacles to institutional diversity in Türkiye.

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sociology of higher education, Turkish higher education, massification, institutional diversity, isomorphism

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103442

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis