26 results found.
...Advisor to Prime Minister; President, Council of HIGHER EDUCATION (F); Rector of Istanbul Şehir Uni. (F)
Ahmet Ünal Çeviköz
Ambassador (R)
Cenk Çimen
President of Automotive Group (F), Koç Holding A.Ş.
Hasan T. Çolakoğlu
Chairman, TEB Holding A.Ş.; Chairman, Çolakoğlu Metalurji
Haydar N. Çolakoğlu
Chairman, Çolakoğlu Group; Vice Chairman, EgeGaz; Vice Chairman, Çolakoğlu Metalurji; Board Member, TEB Holding A.Ş.
Selva Demira...
...Prof. Dr. Üstün Ergüder
“HIGHER EDUCATION in Turkey’s Political Atmosphere”
Ambassador (R) Sönmez Köksal
“40 Years of Experience as a State Officer”
Ambassador (R) Namık Tan
“The Importance of ‘Thinking Big’ in Daily Life and Diplomacy”
Ömer Dinçkök
“What Do We Expect from the Future?”
Dur...
...ugh diplomacy, trade, scientific cooperation, and EDUCATIONal and cultural exchange. Since the mid-1990s, successive administrations have also taken steps to maintain a favorable balance of power in East Asia. As China has grown stronger, the United States has bolstered its own military capabilities in the region, enhanced its strategic cooperation with traditional allies, and built new partnerships with other countries that share its concerns, such as India and Singapore.
The engageme...
...zed as the founder and architect of Turkey’s Open EDUCATION Faculty that currently delivers college EDUCATION to a student body of 800,000 in Turkey and Western Europe. Professor Büyükerşen also served as the President of the HIGHER Advisory Council of the Turkish Radio and Television between the years 1985-1993. He has been the recipient of many honorary awards both in Turkey and abroad. Prof Büyükerşen is a graduate of the Eskişehir Academy of Economics and Commercia...
...zed by exorbitant transportation costs, which are HIGHER in Indonesia than in almost every other ASEAN nation. On the World Bank’s 2010 Logistics Performance Index, which is based on a worldwide survey of shippers and carriers combined with data on the performance of each country’s supply chain, Indonesia ranked 75 out of 155, well below its neighbors.
Jakarta is well aware of these problems, yet it currently spends only half as much on infrastructure development as it did in the 1990s. Seeki...
...roduction, such as air and water quality, health, EDUCATION, and leisure. According to this view, measuring only the goods and services produced by a country also does not reflect an economyʼs productivity, or how much society gains from each input of capital and labor. Others say there is no broader social measurement tool for policymakers to gauge improvements in living standards. But they add that policymakers should not rely on GDP as the only factor in measuring economic prosperity or soci...
...Prof. Dr. Gülsün Sağlamer
"HIGHER EDUCATION in Turkey"
Ambassador (R) Özdem Sanberk
"Diplomacy"
Consul General Scott Kilner
"Turkey-USA Relations"...
...stages of development, when workers attracted by HIGHER wages in cities move from the countryside. The view that the efficient working of the market economy necessarily requires very high inequality, however, finds little empirical basis. There are well-functioning market economies, such as the Scandinavian countries, where income is quite equally distributed. Moreover, recent empirical work at the International Monetary Fund has shown that, on the contrary, growth appears to be more sustained...
...Prof. Ahmet Acar
"HIGHER EDUCATION in Turkey and Research Methodology"
Metin Fadıllıoğlu
Q&A
Ambassador (R) Sönmez Köksal
"Security and Technology"
Ambassador (R) Özdem Sanberk
"The Structural Problems of Turkish Foreign Policy"
Dr. Deniz Yuret
"Th...
...their assessments on (respectively) ‘Security’, ‘HIGHER EDUCATION in Turkey’, ‘Diplomacy’, ‘Turkey-USA Relations’. After the submission of their policy papers, 17 students who will have successfully completed seminar program will join the GRF community. ...
...of income, who have received at least a secondary EDUCATION, and who own either real property, durable goods, or their own businesses.)
As enunciated by classic thinkers such as Locke, Montesquieu, and Mill, liberalism holds that the legitimacy of state authority derives from the state’s ability to protect the individual rights of its citizens and that state power needs to be limited by the adherence to law. One of the fundamental rights to be protected is that of private property; Eng...
...emal Gürüz,
Former President of the Council on HIGHER EDUCATION (YÖK)
December 22, 2016
On December 22, 2016, Former President of the Council on HIGHER EDUCATION (YÖK) Prof. Kemal Gürüz addressed GRF members within the framework of the HIGHER EDUCATION Roundtable Meetings Series. In his speech, Prof. Gürüz presented a historical overview of the HIGHER EDUCATION systems in the world and pr...
...ional Intelligence Sönmez Köksal, Director of the EDUCATION Reform Initiative and Former Rector of Boğaziçi University Prof. Üstün Ergüder, Ambassador (R) Ünal Çeviköz, Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and President of the Global Civics Academy Hakan Altınay gave presentations and shared their assessments respectively on “40 Years of Experience in Bureaucracy”, “HIGHER EDUCATION in the Turkish Political Climate”, “Turkish Foreign Policy between 2...
...GRF Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION”
Guest Speaker: Prof. Hasan Mandal
Council on HIGHER EDUCATION (YÖK) Executive Board Member
April 27, 2016
On April 27th, GRF held the third meeting of the Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION” where Prof. Hasan Mandal, Executive Board Member of the Council on HIGHER EDUCATION (YÖK), addressed GRF members and a group of GRF Community mem...
...GRF Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION”
Guest Speaker:
Prof. Gökhan Çetinsaya
Former President of the Council on HIGHER EDUCATION (YÖK)
March 10, 2017
On March 10th, Prof. Gökhan Çetinsaya, Former President of the Council on HIGHER EDUCATION (YÖK), addressed GRF members within the framework of the Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION.” Prof. Çetinsaya started his presentation with...
...GRF Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION”
Guest Speaker: Dr. John Smith,
Senior Adviser and Former Deputy Secretary General, European University Association (EUA)
April 1, 2016
On April 1st, GRF hosted the second meeting of the Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION” where Dr. John Smith, current Senior Adviser and former Deputy Secretary General of the European University Association (EUA), addressed GRF members and a group of GRF Co...
...Leaders of HIGHER EDUCATION,
Friends and Skeptics of Internationalization,
Dear Colleagues and Guests,
It is my distinct pleasure and honour to be here this morning addressing a distinguished group of academics, administrators and professionals who think about, practice and shape the dynamics of internationalization in HIGHER EDUCATION.
Given the lagged but deep and pervasive impact of EDUCATION, internationaliza...
...GRF Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION”
Guest Speaker:
Prof. İsmail Tosun, Former Vice President of the Council on HIGHER EDUCATION (YÖK)
May 22, 2017
On May 22th, Prof. İsmail Tosun, Former Vice President of the Council on HIGHER EDUCATION (YÖK) and Professor of Chemical Engineering at the METU, addressed GRF members within the framework of the Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION.” St...
...GRF Roundtable Series on “HIGHER EDUCATION”
Inaugural Meeting
“HIGHER EDUCATION as a Shared Challenge: How Will Europe Deal With It?”
Panel Session
March 21, 2016
On March 21, GRF launched a roundtable series on “HIGHER EDUCATION” with a panel session entitled “HIGHER EDUCATION as a Shared Challenge: How Will Europe Deal With It?”. During the session, Prof. Maria Helena Nazaré, Cha...
...s in aerospace, health, environmental science and EDUCATION.
We are human resource rich with a talented, well-educated and motivated work force.
Our government is committed to an open climate for investment. Last year, there was a significant liberalization of Canadian investment rules.
Corporate taxes are on track to be the lowest among the G-7 countries. On new business investments the tax advantage for Canada over the US will be 10 percent by 2012.
The general federal corpora...
...ech on the opportunities and challenges of global HIGHER EDUCATION, Dr. Hamilton emphasized that universities acted as sources of knowledge, perspective and stability throughout history. Stating the need for HIGHER EDUCATION institutions to expand and update their missions in the 21st century, Dr. Hamilton elaborated on a number new approaches concerning the movement of ideas, students and universities. Dr. Hamilton concluded his speech by talking about NY...
...Chairman of the Board
of Trustees of the Turkish EDUCATION Foundation (TEV), member of the
Executive Board of the World Turkish Business Council, board of Trustees
at TEMA and of the HIGHER Advisory Council of TÜSİAD. Mr Yırcalı has
also served as Chairman of the Union of Chambers of Turkey (TOBB),
Chairman of DEİK, Chairman of Yapı Kredi Bank and Türk Henkel. He is a
graduate of American Robert College in Istanbul and received his
Business Administration degree from the Uni...
...rof. Gökhan Çetinsaya
President The Council of HIGHER EDUCATION of Turkey
November 19, 2012
On November 19, 2012, Prof. Gökhan Çetinsaya, President of the Council of HIGHER EDUCATION as well as GRF member, convened with GRF members at a Roundtable and Luncheon to discuss the New Law on HIGHER EDUCATION which is expected to come into effect by 2013. During the meeting, GRF members shared their assessments on t...
...erview of possible collaboration opportunities in EDUCATION, innovation and science between Turkish and British universities , Mr. Willetts received a wide range of questions from GRF members. The Minister was accompanied by a group* of academicians and advisors.
*
Başak Candemir, Science and Innovation Officer, British Consulate-General Istanbul
Prof. John Craven, Vice-Chancellor,University of Portsmouth
Prof. Richard Davies, Vice-Chancellor,University of Swansea
Prof. Les Ebdo...