TR-Dizin İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / TR Dizin Indexed Publications Collection
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Article Türkiye'de Yükseköğrenim Finansmanının Özelleştirilmesi(Sosyoekonomi Society, 2018) Son-Turan, SemenThis study aims at developing a model for the privatization of higher education finance inTurkey. While the primary target is the NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training)population, it offers a broad range of potential solutions involving asset securitization for highereducation financing. Data is driven from secondary sources. The paper presents an interdisciplinaryapproach for privatizing higher education finance involving the labor market, higher educationinstitutions and the Turkish capital market and constitutes a unique contribution to the Turkish highereducation finance literature.Article Citation - WoS: 2Citation - Scopus: 3Reforming Higher Education Finance in Turkey: the Alumni-Crowdfunded Student Debt Fund "a-Csdf" Model(TEDMEM, 2016) Son-Turan, SemenThis study presents an innovative and sustainable system formobilizing Turkish university alumni to contribute to acrowdfunded pool repackaged as a student debt instrument withan elaborate performance tracking tool, various payoff structuresand income-contingent repayment schedules. The ultimate aim isto offer a remedy for the conspicuous global shortage ofalternative finance sources and various forms of aid to highereducation students in the short-term, and, through enablingequitable and egalitarian access to quality higher education,transforming society and enhancing economic development in thelonger-term. The model rests upon a six-dimensional frameworkand its infrastructure is facilitated by a newly emerged form ofdigitally enhanced financing, “crowdfunding”. The researchmethod involves content analysis and data triangulation forvalidation purposes to determine the sub-themes surrounding thehigher education problem in Turkey. The theme-driven keywordsare searched for on Turkey’s first original social network, EksiSozluk, to uncover trends and biases towards student loans, debtrepayment and associated concepts. Subsequently, the samekeywords are utilized in a Google Trends search volume analysis,and are finally validated by a focus group discussion. Thetheoretical framework to explain students’ attitudes towardsborrowing and loan repayment and the motivation behind alumniand charitable giving, rests mainly on behavioral economics. TheA-CDSF Model uniquely addresses the higher education financeproblem in Turkey and offers an easily implementable originalsolution for institutions and policy makers.