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1. Quality of English Provision
in Higher Education
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Ayşen Güven,
Head of English and Higher Education
British Council Turkey
Going Global 4 May 2018
Kuala Lumpur

2. THE CONTEXT
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Highly Centralised
112 public
68 foundation
5 Vocational
Foundation year
mandatory for EMI
students
No guiding policy
‘no common language’
Progress ?

3. THE STARTING POINT
• Ensuring the quality of
English provision in HE is
one of the core challenges
many universities face
regardless of the Medium
of Instruction.
• It is an institutional and
national challenge for
policy makers.
• The report provided
recommendations at a
national, institutional and
programme level.
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Institutional
Challenges
Current solutions
Assuring quality led by
EMI institutions
• International Accreditation Schemes
• International exams
• Evaluation policies
Assessment of outcomes • Benchmarking
• International exams
• Evaluation policies
Entrance and exit levels
of students
• Benchmarking
• International exams
Teacher related
challenges: levels of
English, EMI delivery,
recruitment and training
• Assessing level of English, monitor
Teaching through observations
• Teacher Training (EAP, EMI,
Assessment literacies)

5. STARTING THE QDP PILOT
Timeframe May - November 2017
Partners Council of Higher Education
National Quality Assurance Board
5 universities
Criteria for selection
of universities
Public
Different regions, age, missions,
size
Outcomes Institutional: Action Plan
National: sharing findings of the
pilot with CoHE and NQAB
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6. KEY RECOMMENDATIONS
A need for…
• a detailed, written University English Language Policy.
• opening up channels of communication to promote
collaboration between the Preparatory School and
faculties.
• a revised, cross-university, ELT curriculum, including
extra-curricular English activities, spread over a student’s
university career.
• rolling out a new assessment policy which are
accredited and/or benchmarked against reliable,
internationally recognized standards.
• developing processes and structures for needs-based,
incentivized, CPD opportunities for Preparatory Year and
School/Faculty.
• developing a new cross-Turkey national accreditation
scheme and/or adopting a reputable international scheme.
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7. PRESENTING RECOMMENDATIONS
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