Lifelong Learning And Continuing Education Centres In Turkey
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With the rapid progress of information technologies, access to information has brought new techniques. Accordingly, concepts like Lifelong Education (LLE), Continuing Education (CE) and Lifelong Learning (LLL) have started to be shaped in universities and transformed institutional constructs involving local authorities. The aim of this study is to reveal the present situation of continuing education centres (CEC) in Turkey and their educational categories as parts of LLL. All of the higher education institutions in the title of Universities in Council of Higher Education (CoHE)'s official website form the theoretical sample of the study. In the study, The Continuing Education Centre Research Form has been developed by the researchers. The form includes the types of names CEC's have and the contents of educational categories applied. The data gathered has been analysed with content analysis method from qualitative analysis methods. As a consequence of document analyses, it has been found that 99 of 109 state universities, 64 of 74 public foundation universities, 6 of 8 higher public foundation and 7 of other 19 higher school have a CEC. In the study, it has been also attempted to determine the variety of CEC names and categorizations of their educational programs.