Turkey: liberty and repression
The state is confronting student protest with an iron fist while promising to relax its grip on the academy. Jack Grove reports from the country
The state is confronting student protest with an iron fist while promising to relax its grip on the academy. Jack Grove reports from the country
A historical narrative about Turkey is impressive but lacks a framework, warns M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
Turkey and Germany are to establish a joint university in Istanbul - the first joint enterprise with a foreign country to open in Turkey. On a visit to Istanbul last week, Angela Merkel, the German...
Bill Rammell, the new Higher Education Minister, reveals that he took a call from his old chum Ricky Gervais - star of The Office - during the election campaign. Mr Gervais had just watched Tony...
Paris, 06 Sep 2004 On 15 July in Ankara, Mr Jean-Pol Poncelet, Director of External Relations, and Prof. Nüket Yetis, President of the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK),...
A theological higher education seminary on an island off the Turkish coast could be about to reopen after more than 30 years. Abdullah Gul, the Turkish foreign minster, said "work is under way" to...
Deadline: 03/05/2004
Turkey's universities face certain change after the Islamic-rooted AK party's landslide victory in elections earlier this month. Party leader Tayyip Erdogan promised "sweeping reform" of the higher...
* Staff at the University of Newcastle are being offered a Christmas present of an extra day's holiday this year as a thank you for boosting income to a record £200 million. The university said its...
Turkey's higher education authority (Yok) has stepped up its campaign to keep Islamic influences off university campuses in the wake of September 11. Yok's 20th anniversary this week was marked by...
Calls to strip Turkey's higher education authority of its powers have reached the country's parliament, which is debating legislation to give individual universities more autonomy. The 19th...
Thousands of women wearing Islamic headscarves and men sporting beards were barred from enrolling at Turkish universities for the fourth year running. More than 500 students at Ankara University's...
As European Commission officials discuss Turkey's potential involvement in student mobility programmes as a step on the road to eventual membership, Cambridge University has signed a provisional...
ANKARA British universities' marketing campaign to attract Turkish students was aided last week by the reappointment of Kemal Guruz as head of Turkey's higher education authority, YOK. Dr Guruz, a...
Mexican president Andrés Manuel López-Obrador has expanded university access but is accused of ideological attacks on institutions, overly zealous corruption clampdowns and a misguided power grab...