16 - Turkey - Educational/vocational guidance, education/employment links
The advisory services provided for students in higher education
institutions can be handled in two groups as academic and vocational.
An advisor is assigned on a class or branch level for students who are
registered in bachelor’s degree or associate degree programs. Academic
advisors provide support and advisory in academic issues such as taking
courses, orientation to optional courses, educational activities. These
advisors also provide support and advisory to students on loans,
scholarship, accommodation etc. A courses advisor is assigned for
graduate students after they registered in their programs and in
programs with thesis before they advance to thesis a thesis advisor is
assigned.
Although providing vocational advisory services is a
legal necessity there is not any structuring that can be generalized
for all the higher education institutions. Yükseköğretim Kanunu, No.
2547 foresees that higher education institutions support the graduates
in employment issue in collaboration with the public and private
institutions (Article 47). Career Consultancy Centers were founded in
some of the higher education institutions in order to provide these
services. Vocational presentation meetings are held and participation
of the representatives of private sector institutions to these
activities is provided through these centers by various units. In this
way students and employers are tried to be brought together.
Students
familiarize with their professions, learn employment opportunities,
interact with the employers mostly through training courses which is a
necessity for programs. Education and training practices at work are
applied in bachelor’s degree and associate degree programs prevalently.
In many programs this practice is mandatory as per the field.
Procedures
on in-plant education and training practices for higher vocational
schools within the scope of associate degree programs are affiliated
with a legal frame. Regulations that arrange these issues determine
principles and applications for in-plant education and training for
higher vocational school students in Mesleki ve teknik eğitim bölgeleri.
(Mesleki Teknik Eğitim Bölgesi İçindeki Meslek Yüksekokulu
Öğrencilerinin İşyerlerindeki Eğitim, Uygulama ve Stajlarına İlişkin
Esas Ve Usuller Hakkında Yönetmelik) According to this regulation
students fulfill their training courses on half-term and summer
holidays. Yet, in case of that conditions of the plant are inconvenient
training course can be done on other than the above mentioned period
unless education is hindered. Training course can not be less than 30
working days (240 hours) and more than 60 working days (480 hours).
During education students of the higher schools that conduct vocational
practices are evaluated out of the above mentioned 30-60 day training
course period. This process is evaluated both by in-plant authorities
and the concerned academic staff member.
Training course practices of the bachelor’s degree
programs are arranged on faculty/higher school or department level,
this process is monitored and evaluated by the concerned course’s
academic staff member.
Training courses are processes that
strengthen the relations between business offices and higher education
institutions and facilitate the employment opportunities for students.
Works
to develop university-industry relations are mostly conducted via
Techno parks or Technology Development Zones/centers within the
universities. In these areas various firms can take place and
researchers on various levels can work in these firms half or full
time. Thus industrial institutions know the university much better and
development of the relations are more possible.
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Date: 2009
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