Associate Professorship Examinations

ARTICLE 24

  1. The Associate Professorship examinations are held once a year by the Inter-university Board.

    2. Candidates possessing the following qualifications may apply to the Inter-university Board by the date which it decides upon, with the necessary documents and publications, also stating their major area of study, specialization and research. The Inter-university Board appoints a jury of three or five members according to the regulations concerning the Promotion and Appointment of Academic Staff, taking into consideration their major area. This jury examines the work, gives the candidates an oral or, if necessary, a practical and applied examination and awards the successful candidates the title of Associate Professorship in the relevant subject.

  2. In order to take the Associate Professorship examinations, the following conditions are necessary:

  1. After receiving a bachelor’s degree, to have received a doctorate degree, specialization in medicine, or proficiency in certain branches of the fine arts to be determined by the Council of Higher Education upon the proposal of the Inter-university Board,
  2. To have produced original research and publications,
  3. To have passed a centralized foreign language examination to be prepared by the Inter-university Board.

It is not necessary for the foreign language examination referred to in paragraph (3) above to be related to the major branch of the candidate. If the candidate’s major area is a foreign language, the examination is to be taken in another foreign language.