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7b) Minutes from the Site Visit: Turkey Participants: From the Partners DIPLOMA SUPPLEMENT PROJECT Turkish Site Visit Hacettepe University, 7th October 2008 ENQA: ENIC-NARIC Turkey: Business Europe: ESU: EUA: Dr ir Guy AELTERMAN Dr. Armagan ERDOGAN Ayca TURAN Mr. Fatih TOKATLI (Turkish Business Association) not partipated not partipated From Hacettepe University Vice-Rector: ECTS/DS Coordinator Team: Registrar’s Office and DS Staff: The student representative: Prof. Dr. Hasan KAZDAGLI Prof. Dr. Buket AKKOYUNLU (Dean, Faculty of Education) Prof. Dr. Selda ONDEROGLU (Erasmus Institutional Coordinator) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arzu Akkoyunlu-WIGLEY Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sibel Aksu YILDIRIM Dr. Mavis E. Kulak KAYIKCI A. Rıfkı GÖKMEN (Head of Reg. Office) A.Esra OZHAN CELIK Zafer YAMAN 1- Introduction: A single-day site visit to the Hacettepe University, a state-funded University in Ankara, was held on October 7, 2008. After the participants introduced themselves, Armagan ERDOGAN made a presentation on the aims, the objectives and the content of the DS Project, covering also a brief summary of background to, and progress made in the framework of the project. Ayca TURAN informed the participants on the DS activities carried out under the supervision of the Turkish Council of Higher Education (CoHE). The DS has been introduced in the Turkish Higher Education System within the concept of participation in the EU education, training and youth programmes in 2001. The national DS template has been formed in line with the UNESCO- CEPES and UNESCO standards with the coordination of the CoHE and a standard Turkish DS model has been disseminated to the all Higher Education Institutions in 2005. DS was made mandatory by CoHE at all HEIs in Turkey and starting with the end of 2005-2006 academic year, the Turkish HIEs issue DS to all graduates upon their request, the first copy being free of charge and, in one of the three main languages of EU, English or French or German. 46
Guy ALTERMAN from ENQA provided an informative introduction on the description of ENQA activities and clearly highlighted the role of DS as a tool aiming to facilitate the recognition of qualifications. He also underlined the importance of site visits in better understanding; - the DS practices being carried out at different types of higher education institutions from different countries - the relationship between higher education institutions, students and the labour market needs - students’ demands and expectations changing over time that make universities face new challenges. Here, he particularly focused on the necessity of rethinking all the DS/ECTS activities achieved so far in the light of a broad question “what is behind all the activities?” He also argued that site visits organized at different HEIs should be considered as the process of mutual learning for each participant. 2. Diploma Supplement Activities Procedure at Hacettepe University: 2.1 Background Erasmus Institutional Coordinator and a member of ECTS/DS Coordinator Team of Hacettepe University, gave general information about the Hacettepe University, i.e. its campuses, faculties, schools, institutes, number of students and the academic staff. Moreover, she presented in detail the DS/ECST studies related to the procedure of drafting and delivering the DS at Hacettepe University. In this presentation, she particularly focused on; - the technical part of DS work - the creation of ECTS/DS Coordinator Teams at departmental / faculty and university levels - ECTS activities since the beginning of 2003-2004 academic year. During her presentation, she also talked about the following two questions; ‣ Are students involved in drafting DS/ECTS? ‣ To what extent does Hacettepe University respond to students’ expectations in calculating student workload? Hacettepe University issues DS in English to its graduates upon their request –not automatically- since the 2005-2006 academic year. However, it is important to note here that DS is delivered to graduating students at first, second and short cycles. At this point, the student representative of Hacettepe University, also expressed his opinions and expectations concerning the involvement of students in drafting DS/ECTS activities. He stated that the students at Hacettepe University are aware of DS/ECTS activities and that especially the use of ECTS credits in Socrates/Erasmus programmes promotes the awareness of ECTS activities among students. They are free to share their remarks on DS/ECTS works. However it is not possible to say that they are involved in DS/ECTS drafting as they can not participate in decision-making process. According to him, DS should be viewed as an important tool that facilitates international mobility for further study and employment reasons and, high quality DS in which the students’ profile is given will create a certain competition among students and develop the content of the courses. Another topic that arose during the meeting was the calculation of the student workload. Selda ONDEROGLU from Hacettepe University talked of her role, as a Bologna Expert, in informing the Turkish universities about “What the learning outcome is?” She said that within 47
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