The Turkish Higher Education Quality Council’s New Decisions About the Processes for Evaluation Programs

The Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (THEQC) made a few decisions regarding the universities affected by the Kahramanmaraş earthquake at the Council meeting of February 2023.

It was decided to determine, considering the declarations of will to be submitted by the universities’ governing bodies, whether to continue the processes of İskenderun Technical, Malatya Turgut Özal, and Sanko Universities, which had already been included in the 2023 Follow-up Program but are located in affected places, or not in the Council meeting held on 22 February 2023. The follow-up processes for the universities declaring their will to continue the process will be carried out in 2023. The follow-up processes for the universities preferring not to continue the process will be performed in the scope of the 2024 Follow-up Program. 

Similarly, the process for Gaziantep University, included in the 2023 Mid-term Evaluation Program,   will be carried out either in 2023 or 2024, considering the university’s declaration of will.

THEQC Extends the ISER Writing Deadlines for 17 Universities

In the meeting, the Council agreed that the 2022 Institutional Self-Evaluation Report (ISER) Writing deadline would be 30 June 2023 for the universities in the places affected by the earthquake. The decision to extend the ISER writing deadline applies to the following universities: 

Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University, Adıyaman University, Çukurova University, Dicle University, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep Islamic Science and Technology University, Harran University, Hasan Kalyoncu University, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, İnönü University, İskenderun Technical University, Kahramanmaraş İstiklal University , Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kilis 7 Aralık University, Malatya Turgut Özal University, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, and Sanko University.