CoHE President Özvar Attends 29th Deans' Meeting of the Faculties of
Theology and Islamic Sciences of Türkiye in Gaziantep
April 17, 2025 / Gaziantep
Erol Özvar, President of the Council of Higher Education, attended the 29th
Meeting of Deans of Faculties of Theology and Islamic Sciences in Türkiye
hosted by Gaziantep Islamic Science and Technology University.
In his opening speech, Özvar stated that they took an important step by
stopping the admission of students to evening education programs in order
to increase the quality of students in higher education. He stated that
theology programs have gained the identity of an international program
today.
He also mentioned the Science Café activities to be organized within the
Science Communication Office and said, “These activities will be
instrumental in transferring the knowledge produced by our universities to
the society. It will be an extremely valuable effort for our faculty
members of the Faculty of Theology to participate in these activities and
to encourage our young people to intellectual studies.”
Özvar stated that he believed that the meeting, where academic issues
related to the Faculties of Theology and Islamic Sciences were discussed in
detail, would make a significant contribution to the vision of improving
the quality of education.
In his speech, Gaziantep Governor Kemal Çeber stated that the society needs
the faculties of theology and Islamic sciences in terms of faith services.
The 29th Deans' Meeting of Faculties of Theology and Islamic Sciences in
Türkiye is being held with the participation of the rectors of 17
universities with faculties of Theology and Islamic Sciences and 70 deans.
The first session was moderated by Prof. Hüseyin Karaman, CoHE Executive
Member, on the topics of “Restructuring and Future Vision” and “Education
and Training (Undergraduate)”. Prof. Murteza Bedir, CoHE Member moderated
the second session which included “Education and Training (Graduate)”,
“ILITAM Education”, and “Research (Projects)”. The third session was
moderated by Prof. Yaşar Düzenli, Dean of the Faculty of Theology at
Istanbul University and included the topics titled “Research (Publications
and Academic Activities)”, “Research (Monitoring and Performance
Measurement)” and “Associate Professorship”.