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Since knowledge today is the most powerful core source for individuals, society and states, it is becoming an essential leverage that affects profoundly the dynamics of all parties. For this reason, information gains a nature that will affect all dynamics of individual and social life. Moreover, the fact that there is no boundary for knowledge is very convenient for states that want to expand their power and efficiency. Due to that, they allocate a huge number of resources on producing knowledge. Commercializing the strategic knowledge is also an affirmative determinant for this allocation. Higher education institutions are places where qualified information is processed and transferred. For this reason, it is only possible to reach qualified information by receiving education in higher education institutions that provide this service under appropriate conditions. The transformation of knowledge into a basic need for people and societies today significantly increases the demands for higher education. In countries that develop higher education institutions with their investments, the demands for these institutions are increasing day by day not only by the citizens of the countries but also by international students who cannot access qualified information in their countries for various reasons. In this sense, Turkey has become a centre of attraction in higher education seriously. It is vital for Turkey to successfully implement perpetually the Internationalization Strategy Document in Higher Education to meet fast increasing international student demands. This paper makes an effort to review the current situation of the internationalization strategy of higher education in Turkey, summarize its implementation, emphasize problems encountered, and propose very essential suggestions for the solutions of these problems. It will surely help Turkey’s effort to reach its target on the internationalization strategy of higher education, and to become an important centre of attraction for both international students and academic staffs. As suggested in this paper, this aim is acquired only under the condition of identifying problems, making decisions very fast for the solutions, and prosecuting the implementation of the decisions continuously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, engineers make efforts for post-graduate programs far more than before. The main reasons can be increasing awareness of firms about education, decreasing job opportunities for undergraduate degrees, the increasing demand for being an academician or scholarship opportunities by government. Some firms want their postgraduate student engineers to solve the firm's problems in their master or doctoral thesis as case studies. In this regard industrial engineering is a field that adjusts almost with every sector because of its multidisciplinary nature. Thus, there are many post-graduate theses written in this area. The aim of this paper is to analyze 2,122 postgraduate theses (master & doctoral) which are carried out in the department of industrial engineering in Turkish universities. The data is obtained from the website of Council of Higher Education of Turkey. The time period is determined as 2010-2017 and only the 1780 "permission" theses are analyzed in order to reach keywords for solution approaches and keywords analysis. Nine different indicators are used to analyze the thesis such as; university status, page numbers, language, keywords etc. As a result, this study shows how the theses are clustered according to different indicators and which topics are studied more frequently in recent years. The inference of the paper is important because the results give an insight about the road map of industrial engineering thesis completed in 56 different Turkish universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ongoing pandemic due to SARS CoV2 is really a big one, which would never welcomed from any countries anytime, but knocked the door all of a sudden! The SARS CoV-2 first appeared in China in late December 2019. The virus isolated on January 7, 2020; the disease named as COVID-19 afterwars. Since this was a SARS virus not an influenza, nobody seem to expect it as a pandemic agent, spread so fast and so globally. But actually it did spread to many countries and declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. The pandemic hit the universities hard. The most important topic for universities during the pandemic was of course distance and remote learning, which become widespread already. The pandemic will cause profound impacts and changes on the higher education system around the world in terms of education-teaching methods, research, internationalization and mobility. The response of Council of Higher Education of Turkey to pandemic could be evaluated in four phases: 1) Close monitoring, 2) Preparing, 3) Action, 4) New normalization. In this paper we will review the response of Turkish higher education institutions and Council of Higher Education to the COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Higher education is a problematic field in Pakistan. The major problems include the dependent structure of institutions and political interventions. The academic programs are not updated and modern. The rate of participation in higher education is low. Instructors are not paid fairly. Since the state's support is not sufficient, financial deficit has been chronic. There are complex relations among the federal department of education, the state department of education, the council of higher education, and universities. The latter are not administered well and suffer from corruption, inefficient policies, and misuse of grants. The growth of educational institutions is not proportional to that of population, and hence the rate of participation in higher education is low. Students are faced with economic challenges, many not able to afford tuitions. This leads them to being engaged with politics excessively and negative activities. The teaching body has to face similar challenges. They have to work for low income, which motivates them for non-professional occupations. Universities have to search for additional financial resources. One possibility is being focused on industrial and military researches. But this attempt often fails because there are limits for cooperation with institutions in these sectors and there are limited means for quality research. This paper discusses these problems observed in Pakistan's system and institutions of higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to develop a scale of lecturers' power sources in class management. Survey method is used in the research. The outline of scale was applied by 273 graduates at the University of Düzce, Faculty of Technical Education, teaching departments of computing, electric, design, construction, furniture and decoration. After the application of the outline of the scala that has 40 items resulted in 34 items of final version of scala soon after the completion of reliability and validity analysis. KMO value of AFM scale is. 894 that is meaningful above than critical level of 70 and the value of Barlett test is meaningful on the level of 01. It is seen that after factor analysis, the scale provides 53.318% of total variance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the existence of nonlinear relationship between tertiary education and economic growth in the period of the Republic of Turkey, using annual time series data from 1924 to 2009. The econometric approach of this paper is based on the threshold autoregressive (TAR) model. The empirical results show evidence of one threshold value and the graduates of tertiary education have a positive contribution to economic growth above this value. The findings of this study exhibit that the government must be invest much more for the higher education to promote the development of the Turkish economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to explore the use and the research about case-method in teacher education. The content of the 115 academic studies published in the journals indexed in the Educational Research Information Center (ERIC), Academic Search Complete, Professional Development Collection, and Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection were examined in this study. The result revealed that there are various approaches and practices in the use of case-method in teacher education. This paper presents a list of the academic disciplines using case teaching method, the benefits and the challenges in the use of this method and the research methods used in the investigation of case teaching method in preservice teacher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]