1416 SAYILI ECNEBİ MEMLEKETLERE GÖNDERİLECEK TALEBE HAKKINDA KANUN VE CUMHURİYETİN İLK YILLARINDAKİ UYGULAMALARI

Abstract

The practice of sending students to foreign countries started with Mr. Ishak to be sent to France in Selim III period, and it continued until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire as it varied from period to period numerically. The practice continued after the establishment of the republic as well, and students were sent to Europe, notably to Germany and France. Besides mathematics, physics, chemistry, history and geography branches, students were sent to the European countries for the short term vocational educations as well. Between the years of 1923-1929, the governmental institutions sent students to foreign countries for the area they needed and by determining the number of students by themselves. However, due to efficiency could not be provided from such a system, a legislative proposal was prepared by the government in 1929. The proposal was approved by the assembly, and came into effect by being published in the Official Gazette on 16 April 1929. Surviving today with the name “Law about the Students to Send to Foreign Countries”, the 1416 Numbered Law arranged many subjects from determining the students to be sent to abroad to their employment after their returns.