Higher Education Council

Students who have had difficulty in paying the increased tuition fees at private universities now have been surprised by the new exorbitant increases announced for next academic year.

The increases in tuition fees of private universities exceeding 200 percent have been drawing the reaction of students since the beginning of the 2022-2023 academic year.

Ljubljana – The draft 2021-2030 National Programme for Higher Education, which will be up for public debate until 20 September, envisages changes to the granting of concessions and financing of higher education institutions. The Education Ministry says the document will be the basis for policies in higher education in the next decade.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has replaced a top Turkish university rector whose appointment led to months of student-led protests.

Melih Bulu, the rector of Istanbul's Boğaziçi University, was dismissed from his post by a presidential decree published in the Official Gazette on July 15.

Turkey's president chaired a meeting late on June 10 at the Presidential Complex in the capital discussing solutions to the mucilage problem in the Sea of Marmara. 

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said authorities have intensified inspections at all sewage and solid waste facilities while examining developments at sea.

Turkish police on Feb. 2 detained more than 170 people in Istanbul and Ankara following the protests against the appointment of a new rector at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul.

Some 104 people were detained in the sprawling commercial hub of Istanbul and another 69 in the capital Ankara, police said in two statements.

Later on, 94 of the detainees in Istanbul were released. 

As academic ghostwriting 'industry' continues its unavoidable growth in Turkey, the country's Higher Education Council (YÖK) filed a criminal complaint to the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office about the suspects who prepared academic thesis and essays in exchange of money.

Controversy regarding the appointment of Melih Bulu as the rector of Boğaziçi University, one Turkey's most prestigious universities, is continuing with protests and the detention of protestors.

Speaking to daily Hürriyet, Bulu, the new rector of Boğaziçi University, said he expected such reactions and understood the protesting students' sentiments.

Hundreds of Turkish academics have expressed solidarity with their colleagues suspected of terrorism crimes after signing a petition to call for an end to ongoing violence in southeastern Turkey in a statement sent to the Hürriyet Daily News.

Turkey is boosting its efforts to attract more international students, whose number in Turkish universities has more than doubled over the past three years.