Yekta Saraç

The president of the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), Prof. Dr. Yekta Saraç, became the chief adviser to the president upon the expiration of his term, while Marmara University Rector Prof. Dr. Erol Özvar has been appointed as a member and president of YÖK, according to a presidential decree published on the Official Gazette.

Turkey will reopen universities on Oct. 1 with measures in place to counter the coronavirus, the country's higher education board head has said.

"We asked universities to plan their education calendar starting on Oct. 1," Yekta Saraç said, the head of the Higher Education Board (YÖK) wrote on Twitter.

Turkey will reopen universities on Oct. 1 with measures in place to counter the coronavirus, the country's higher education head said on Aug. 13. 

"As of today, we asked universities to plan their education calendar starting on Oct. 1," Yekta Saraç said.

The Turkish government has decided to bring forward the nationwide university admission exams of this year to an earlier date in late June than scheduled as part of COVID-19 measures, drawing reaction on social media, as youngsters launched the hashtag #SandiktaGorusuruz (We'll see you at the ballot box) late May 4 on Twitter.

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.

Some 17 women sit on the presidential chairs in Turkey's 206 universities, while 322 women occupy dean's offices out of 1797, Yekta Saraç, the head of Higher Education Board (YÖK), has said.

Higher Education Board (YÖK) head Yekta Saraç has claimed that the controversial splitting up of Turkey's oldest university, Istanbul University, will give it "more autonomy."

A number of radical changes regarding entrance to universities in Turkey are on the way, with the announcement that 10 universities in the country have been determined as research-focused universities and that the current university entrance exam system will be completely changed. 

The number of students, teachers and schools in Turkey are growing, but the quality is gradually deteriorating. 

It is like the "bad money drives out good money" rule in economics.

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The head of the Higher Education Board [YÖK], Yekta Saraç, said in a recent interview that admission into universities without a national exam was out of the question for now, but the board was considering "simplifying the exam system," state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Sept. 22.