Globalization and its challenges for developing countries: the case of Turkish higher education

2010-4-4
Akar, Hanife
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This paper examines the challenges faced by the Turkish higher education system and exposes the inequities and realities educators in a developing nation must struggle with as they try to find a prestigious spot in the knowledge-production industry. After a brief overview of the literature that illustrates how globalization penetrated into each stage of development of Turkey's modern institutions of higher education, the paper presents a discussion, based on national and international statistics, of the challenges these institutions face as a result of globalization, namely increasing demands for higher education; faculty shortages; the internationalization of higher education; research and knowledge production; and the process of financing higher education.
Higher education, Globalization, Turkey
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/28559
Asia Pacific Education Review
Department of Educational Sciences, Article

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H. Akar, “Globalization and its challenges for developing countries: the case of Turkish higher education,” Asia Pacific Education Review, pp. 447–457, 2010, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/28559.
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