CoHE Offers More Positions for Developed Departments of Research
Universities
December 14, 2019
CoHE President Prof. M. A. Yekta Saraç said that 215 new academics would be
assigned to positions in the fields that research and candidate research
universities have the highest performance.
The fields of study in which universities had the best performance were
determined
Yekta Saraç noted that CoHE started to provide additional positions to
research and candidate research universities every year after the
realization of the Specialization and Mission Differentiation Project,
which is a first in Turkish higher education.
“These additional positions were distributed evenly to several departments
of universities. This distribution had a limited positive contribution to
CoHE’s project. According to the new implementation based on success, the
units and departments of the research universities with the highest
international visibility and the fields of study where they have the best
performance were determined through meticulous research.
The Presidency supported our policy by approving our proposal for the
allocation of assignment permissions of 15 additional positions to each
research university and 10 additional positions to each candidate research
universities. They will be for academic staff positions of the related
departments in the determined main fields and proposed subfields and will
be used in 2019. We are grateful to the Presidency,” he said.
The focus is mostly on health, science, and engineering in main fields
The main fields determined by CoHE specifically for each university
includes physics and astronomy, geology, biochemistry, genetics, and
molecular biology, energy, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceuticals,
computer science, agriculture and bioscience, civil engineering and
structural engineering, control and system engineering, industrial and
manufacturing engineering, materials science, medicine and health,
dentistry, chemistry, chemical engineering, psychology, and mathematics.
Saraç said that this approach should not be considered as other fields
being neglected. He added that they were supporting the whole system,
namely science-engineering, health, and social fields, but that they were
doing it within the framework of high-level policy and planning.
11 research universities and 5 candidate research universities were
identified under the Project
Taking into consideration the opinions of the related stakeholders, CoHE
identified Ankara University, Boğaziçi University, Erciyes University, Gazi
University, Gebze Technical University, Hacettepe University, Istanbul
Technical University, Istanbul University, İstanbul University -
Cerrahpaşa, Izmir Institute of Technology and Middle East Technical
University as research universities and Çukurova University, Ege
University, Selçuk University, Uludağ University and Yıldız Technical
University as candidate research universities.
Source: Anadolu Agency