caa a22 4500 463161548 CHVBK 20180406164749.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10734-005-2290-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10734-005-2290-x Mathews Julie MA TEFL Program, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey aut Predicting international students' academic success... may not always be enough: Assessing Turkey's Foreign Study Scholarship Program [Elektronische Daten] [Julie Mathews] In 1993, Turkey's Higher Education Council (YOK) launched a program to sponsor thousands of students for graduate study abroad, in the hopes of building up a base of highly qualified, foreign educated faculty for 24 newly established universities nationwide. With an incoming new YOK administration in 1995, dramatic changes were made in the program's selection procedures. One of the key elements of these changes was the inclusion of a high foreign language proficiency requirement, which served both to meet certain ideological goals of the new administration as well as presuming to reduce the high degree of student failure abroad. In addition to assessing the overall success of the scholarship program in light of the changes made, this study provides another look at the connection between language proficiency and academic success, with both qualitative and quantitative data collected from 23 ‘YOK scholars'. Although finding a positive relation between language proficiency and academic success, the study suggests that rather than having solved the scholarship program's problems by imposing high language proficiency requirements, the new YOK administration actually reduced even further the program's ability to successfully supply faculty to the new universities. Recommendations are made for the Turkish and similar foreign study programs. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 academic success nationallicence developing countries nationallicence English as a foreign language nationallicence foreign scholarship programs nationallicence higher education nationallicence language proficiency nationallicence postgraduate education nationallicence Turkey nationallicence Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 53/5(2007-05-01), 645-673 0018-1560 53:5<645 2007 53 10734 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-005-2290-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-005-2290-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mathews Julie MA TEFL Program, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Higher Education Kluwer Academic Publishers 53/5(2007-05-01), 645-673 0018-1560 53:5<645 2007 53 10734 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 35197072X BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer