Predicting international students' academic success... may not always be enough: assessing Turkey's Foreign Study Scholarship Program

dc.citation.epage673en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber5en_US
dc.citation.spage645en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber53en_US
dc.contributor.authorMathews, J.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T10:16:05Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T10:16:05Z
dc.date.issued2007en_US
dc.description.abstractIn 1993, Turkey's Higher Education Council (YOK) launched a program to sponsor thousands of students for graduate study abroad, in the hopes of building up a base of highly qualified, foreign educated faculty for 24 newly established universities nationwide. With an incoming new YOK administration in 1995, dramatic changes were made in the program's selection procedures. One of the key elements of these changes was the inclusion of a high foreign language proficiency requirement, which served both to meet certain ideological goals of the new administration as well as presuming to reduce the high degree of student failure abroad. In addition to assessing the overall success of the scholarship program in light of the changes made, this study provides another look at the connection between language proficiency and academic success, with both qualitative and quantitative data collected from 23 'YOK scholars'. Although finding a positive relation between language proficiency and academic success, the study suggests that rather than having solved the scholarship program's problems by imposing high language proficiency requirements, the new YOK administration actually reduced even further the program's ability to successfully supply faculty to the new universities. Recommendations are made for the Turkish and similar foreign study programs.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10734-005-2290-xen_US
dc.identifier.issn0018-1560
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/23588
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishersen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-005-2290-xen_US
dc.source.titleHigher Educationen_US
dc.subjectAcademic successen_US
dc.subjectDeveloping countriesen_US
dc.subjectEnglish as a foreign languageen_US
dc.subjectForeign scholarship programsen_US
dc.subjectHigher educationen_US
dc.subjectLanguage proficiencyen_US
dc.subjectPostgraduate educationen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titlePredicting international students' academic success... may not always be enough: assessing Turkey's Foreign Study Scholarship Programen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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