Diffusion and Adoption of Quality Management in Turkish Higher Education
Global developments in higher education have made quality management a fundamental tool of legitimacy. In parallel with the whole world, quality management has started to be institutionalized at the national level and the diffusion of quality management among higher education institutions has accelerated in the Turkish higher education system with the establishment of the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (THEQC) in 2015. In the study, the diffusion of quality management in Turkish higher education institutions is discussed in detail and it is presented that quality management in higher education has spread throughout Türkiye as a dominant management style and paradigm. The successful studies of THEQC for the normative adoption of quality management are discussed and Opinions-Suggestions on the General Situation of the Turkish Higher Education System are provided in the study, in which the Theoretical Framework of Quality Management in Turkish Higher Education is discussed in detail. The study presents a general framework for the quality journey of Turkish higher education, which has come a long way in reaching world standards.