Diffusion and Adoption of Quality Management in Turkish Higher Education

Global developments in higher education have made quality management afundamental tool of legitimacy. In parallel with the whole world, qualitymanagement has started to be institutionalized at the national level and thediffusion of quality management among higher education institutions hasaccelerated in the Turkish higher education system with the establishment ofthe Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (THEQC) in 2015. In the study,the diffusion of quality management in Turkish higher education institutions isdiscussed in detail and it is presented that quality management in highereducation has spread throughout Türkiye as a dominant management style andparadigm. The successful studies of THEQC for the normative adoption ofquality management are discussed and Opinions-Suggestions on the GeneralSituation of the Turkish Higher Education System are provided in the study, inwhich the Theoretical Framework of Quality Management in Turkish HigherEducation is discussed in detail. The study presents a general framework for thequality journey of Turkish higher education, which has come a long way inreaching world standards