COURSE LOAD OF TEACHING STAFF IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN TURKEY

The period of globalization and transition to the information society that we live in causes an increment in the demands and expectations each passing day from the universities whose main duties are to make education-training, to do academic research and to serve the country and humanity. As a result of this increasing demands and expectations an important transformation period is being had in the higher education institutions in Turkey; number of universities, faculties, scools, institutes, departments and students/quotas are increasing every year. In this study; it is tried to be reviewed by calculating the time that the teaching staff, who work full time in the universities, need to spend for the education and training duty. In the study; the data of 53 universities were used that were set up before 2006 and the assessments were carried out based on their payments for additional course hours between 2006-2009.