Güven Sak, PhD
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How Syria is so much like Turkey
I have been thinking about how much Syria resembles Turkey lately. This year of unrest across the border gave me a whole new perspective. The similarity is obviously not…
What happened to education during the strife?
Do you realize what has happened to education as a result of the strife? Do you understand what the final draft of the education reform bill the commission has adopted…
Why are the people and the deputies of the parliament not alike?
Why were the people in Antalya able to discuss any issue around a roundtable, looking each other in the eye, when their deputies have been brawling in Ankara? Last…
Dentists as Green Shoots
Unemployment levels and jobless claims are declining, everything seems fine, but it is hard to shake the lingering feel of uncertainty. It was first mentioned on CNBC’s…
The 4+4+4 formula is unfair
Studies suggest that designing an education system that classifies children at an age and on the basis of their success is unfair. Germany’s 4+6+2 formula for compulsory…
We need smart projects, not crazy ones
Revision brings good. Today’s world requires smart projects, not crazy ones. We have a great deal to lose now. The old project involving Sinop has risen from the grave…
This still is not an education reform bill.
Turkey needs to find structural solutions to structural problems and to give up empty talk. This week, it snowed more than ever in Ankara. On Tuesday, when the heavy…
What does Israel have that Turkey does not?
In order to build the innovation debates in Turkey upon a concrete context, we must try to understand what Israel has that Turkey does not. We have been discussing…
This is not it
The new education reform bill is not in line with the objective function of this government. An education reform bill is in Parliament. Or perhaps I should say the…
Turkey is not becoming like China
Fortunately, we have corrected this acute problem with the intervention of deputy prime minister Ali Babacan. Let me stress one point as Xi Jinping, leader-to-be of the…
It is poor children who become paint-thinner addicts
One out of every four children in Turkey lives in a poor household. The OECD average for child poverty is 12.6 percent. According to OECD figures, Turkey is among the…
Number one in the world
The global crisis has led to a relative saving surplus in Europe and the United States that is sustaining the unsustainable. There is no need to deny it. As Turks we…