A Sociologist at the head of the Higher Education Council
His CV here
the Turkish press was caught helpless as nobody expected the appointment of Prof.Dr. ÖZCAN YUSUF ZİYA as the head of Higher Education Council (YÖK). They did not even have his photo. They all got his photo from his CV at METU site.
Some obsessive Kemalists immediately claimed he has some Islamic roots but hey this man has a real academic substance. I don't know him much but his CV looks fine to me and he is known to be very popular among his student at METU. Still I don't know much about him but i feel sort of happy. And his one of first statements according to Hürriyet is that he will work to annul all bans in universities and make Turkish universities be more scientific....
I have to talk to mum. What she thinks? A Sociologist at the top:) My parents were so pissed off when I became a Sociology student...
Comments
he was my professor when i was a student at METU. I was so pleased, like many of my friends from METU, when he got appointed as the head of YOK. he is a very good scholar in his area and moreover, he is a wonderful person!
Posted by: ebru | December 15, 2007 11:40 PM