Keywords: Education
Why is Turkey an Odd Country? | Esen Çağlar It is odd to invest in real estate and apartment blocks instead of in education.
17/04/2013
"Our country’s agenda gets so odd at times that one inevitably wonders if such things happen in other places as well. Are we one of a kind? Is there any other country that has suffered from terrorism and high inflation for 30 years? Do the
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Intergenerational Mobility in Education - How Does Turkey Compare in Equality of Opportunity? Evaluation Note / Bilgi Aslankurt
17/01/2013
"Education is one of the key factors that determine the quality of human resources and thus the competitiveness of a country. The steps that will enhance the access to and quality of education can facilitate economic growth by helping make the best
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The European Union has to be Turkey’s Growth Story Commentary / Esen Çağlar
19/03/2012
"Ever more of us nowadays think that the crisis in Europe has shaken the foundations of Turkey’s European Union (EU) project. Looking at the acceleration of the trade figures between Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa, some get caught u
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Employment Drops in the Education and Health Sectors Between November 2010 and November 2011, 30,000 people left jobs in the education sector.
12/03/2012
ANKARA – TEPAV stated that the education and health sectors faced the highest drops in employment. The stable, upward trend of employment in the education sector since 2008 turned downwards by mid-2011.
The fourth issue of the TEPAV Employme
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Commentary/Esen Çağlar The five differences between the ministries of education in Turkey and the UK
23/01/2012
"I actually wanted to continue writing on the issue of sidewalks as we are buried in snow. The municipal mentality that plows the snow on the roads does not care much about the sidewalks where pedestrians walk. But I will cover this in a lat
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Policy Note/Selim Koru & Jesper Åkesson Turkey’s English Deficit
21/12/2011
"In a popular television comedy, a nervous character one night barges into his coworker’s apartment. 'It’s all over, over I tell you!' he shouts. Their company, he says, is being bought up by Americans. He drops on the sofa, hands covering his
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Commentary/Esen Çağlar: Being a top ten economy: are we dreaming? TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar assessed Turkey's aim to be a top-ten economy by 2023 in the light of a comparison of Turkey's performance with other countries in the list.
14/11/2011
Çağlar assessed:
"On a TV show recently, the program host was wandering through the streets of a rising Anatolian city, asking people how many weeks there were in a year. The majority of the respondents answered, “4 times 12, so 48 week
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TEPAV: "Higher Education Board Harms the Economy" TEPAV's research identified that the lack of autonomy across universities in Turkey affected innovation performance adversely.
14/12/2010
ANKARA-TEPAV research aiming to shed light on the correlation between the higher education system in Turkey and competitiveness identified that the lack of autonomy across universities in Turkey affected innovation performance adversely.
TEPAV pol
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Evaluation Note / Bengisu Özenç & Selin Arslanhan An Evaluation of PISA 2009 Results
08/12/2010
"Turkey is amongst the countries who achieved the largest score improvements; however we could not make it to the upper level. In the assessment where 1 denotes the worst and 6 denotes the best performance, Turkey's level is 2 in all three c
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