An Analysis of the Teaching Staffs of the City and Regional Planning Departments in Terms of the TUPOB Criteria

In the context of the quality and norm studies for the planning education, the Association of Planning Schools of Turkey (TUPOB) developed certain measures, which were essential for City and Regional Planning (CRP) departments. A recent and comparative study, which shows the impact of TUPOB criteria - developed in 2011 - in structuring the CRP departments, and reveals whether the existing CRP departments provide the TUPOB measures or not, has not entered into the literature. In the direction of such a deficiency, the aim of this article was to investigate the CRP departments in terms of the TUPOB criteria in the context of the teaching staff adequacy. The research contained 21 CRP departments which were categorized in 3 groups. In the study, the adequacy of the teaching staff were examined in terms of the number of teaching staffs, the diversity of teaching staff, and the number of first year students per teaching staff. Data was obtained from 2016-OSYS Higher Education Programs and Quota Guide. Descriptive statistical analysis techniques were applied to the variables. Analysis findings were first presented on groups’ basis, followed by comparative evaluations between groups. Analysis showed the absence of any group which met all criteria of TUPOB, moreover that of any planning school. Consequently, the teaching staffs of CRP departments were inadequate according to the TUPOB criteria. However, the degrees of inadequacy were different. The third group CRP departments were the most disadvantaged group according to all criteria. Results indicate that the TUPOB’s measures, which were a common mind study, have been not decisive in structuring the teaching staffs of the planning schools