Turkish Council of Higher Education

The proportion of women professors employed at Turkish universities has outpaced the average in EU countries, the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK) announced on June 5.

Turkey has 207 higher education institutions, with nearly 8.22 million students and almost 91,000 academics in total.

Students studying at undergraduate and graduate programs will be able to defer their registrations in the spring semester of 2019-2020 academic year, said Turkish Council of Higher Education on April 1. 

Due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, Turkish authorities decided to close all schools and universities to avert the spread of the virus as of March 16.

President Gjorge Ivanov of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) will pay an official visit to Turkey to Turkey on Monday at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.