Turkey's Higher Education Board

The rector of Pamukkale University, Hüseyin Bağ, has been suspended from his post after reports that he gave a job to his wife in the university, Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) said on Aug. 10.

The move comes after reports that he had given his wife a job as a teaching assistant went viral on social media.

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) has denied rumors that Syrian refugees can enter Turkish universities without having to sit any examinations.

New security measures are underway for university campuses, Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) said on Jan. 15 following the murder of a lecturer on the campus of an Ankara university earlier this month.

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) said new students will not be admitted to the French language and literature and French language teaching departments at Turkish universities until further notice, daily Hürriyet reported on May 10.

Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) released a report revealing the working conditions of research assistants at the universities' medical faculties, indicating that 15.4 percent of the assistants "almost never" work with academics, whereas 3.9 percent "never" work with academics.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reappointed Yekta Saraç as the head of Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK) on July 20.

Saraç was first appointed to the post on Nov. 12, 2014.

Saraç, who was the acting head of YÖK after former head Gökhan Çetinsaya was removed from his post, was appointed as the new head of YÖK by Erdoğan again. 

More than 7,000 people were dismissed with a new state of emergency decree published in the Official Gazette on July 14.

A total of 7,395 dismissals were carried out and 312 public workers were reinstated to their posts with the decree.

The lists of academics expelled with the latest state of emergency decree on Feb. 7 was prepared by their own universities, Turkey's Higher Education Board's (YÖK) press adviser has said after the board received harsh criticism from opposition groups and the scholars themselves. 

Now is not the time or place to laugh. I'm not in the mood to laugh at all. But I just had a good laugh thanks to Turkey's Higher Education Board (YÖK). It made my day. 

I was laughing at the report in daily Hürriyet that YÖK recently posted vacancy adverts, looking for rectors for 19 universities across the country.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Nov. 12 appointed a rector to Istanbul's prestigious Boğaziçi University, marking the first such move after he was given the authority to directly appoint rectors following the latest state of emergency decree.