Turkey aims to boost popularity for international students

The Prime Ministry's International Students Department plans to transform the country into an education hub by allocating $96 million in scholarships to increase the number of foreign students studying in Turkey from its current level of 54,000.
Turkeyis increasing its international scholarships in an effort to become a global education hub, according to officials. There are presently more than 54,000 international students from around the world enrolled in Turkish universities with over 13,000 of them funded by the government's education programs. "Turkey aims to have more than 200,000 international students by 2023," said Serdar Gündoğan, head of the Turkish Prime Ministry's International Students Department. Turkey has allocated about $96 million (TL 203.9 million) on government scholarship programs for 2014, a new record, Gündoğan said. More...