A New Chapter or a Repetition of the Past in Quality? The Education Perspective of the Internal Institutional Evaluation Reports of the Selected State Universities

The studies about quality in the field of higher education has started to accelerate since the 1990s. Even though initially Academic and Quality Evaluation Commissions at Higher Education Institutions and afterwards Academic Evaluation Commissions have been founded with legislative arrangements, the most radical arrangement has been introduced with the quality regulation in 2015, making the internal evaluations at universities, as well as subjection of external evaluations obligatory procedures. Moreover, the legislative regulations, in other words Higher Education Quality Assurance System and Higher Education Quality Council have been passed into law in 2017, and they have been published at the official gazette with law number 30111. This work, evaluates the internal institutional evaluation reports of five Turkish state universities founded in 1992 comparatively, from the standpoint of educational format with content analysis. In this context, the contribution of internal and external partners to the procedure, the performance of the faculty members, the services addressed to the students requiring special treatment, the student orientation programs, redundance of learning sources, career development services aimed for students, satisfaction of the students, and alumni surveillance systems have been taken into consideration for comparison, and the results have been revealed