The Study of Adjustment Issues of University Students in Turkey under the Globalization of Education

Year 2019, , 41 - 51, 20.12.2019

Thseen Nazir , Sefa Bulut

https://doi.org/10.32568/jfce.546560

Abstract

Globally the mobilization
of students tented from east to west where students prefer to travel and enroll
in modern and advanced universities of west. They try to adapt the language,
culture and new education system. Such trends happen in Turkey also in recent
times and the universities in Turkey had seen a huge rise of enrolment of
international students. The strength of International
student’s in higher education within the Turkey has increased considerably in
the last few years with the help of different Turkish Scholarship Programs. The
relevance of this work is determined by the adjustment issues of foreign
student’s adaptation to the educational environment of Turkish Universities.
The study revealed that international students faces many challenges, which are
categorized under academic challenges, social isolation, and cultural
adjustment. In order to overcome these hurdles, challenges and barriers
students have adopted and acclimatized different resources, which mainly are
derived from the universities and outside universities in order to overcome all
these challenges.

Keywords

Globalization, international students, academic challenges, issues, adjustment issues

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