| Accreditation: | Council on Higher Education (YOK), Turkey |
| Type: | Public |
| Established: | 1978 |
| Website: | www.erciyes.edu.tr |
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| Location: |
Erciyes Üniversitesi
Kayseri 38039 Turkiye |
| Phone: | 0090352 207 66 00 |
Reviews
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Worst experience ever This University is in the middle of nowhere in the most conservative place of Turkey. There are no ethnic restaurants, no thriving community of expats, no international schools and kindergartens, nobody speaks English, no social life, no entertainment and as a foreigner you are a fly in a butter milk here. The University itself is a typical Anatolian University- old prison style buildings, classrooms with over 40 mounted to the floor tables, outdated computer towers and projection units that never work. Administration and faculty consist of narrow-minded, conservative, self-absorbed people who use fear tactic to control employees. Your every step is recorded and passed on to the administration. You will have about 60 students in one class and would be teaching a minimum of 5 classes per semester. There is no collaboration, no cooperation and no team spirit. People are jealous of each other's achievement and you are left to suffocate in intellectual isolation. Nobody cares about your credentials, how well you do your job or how much your students are happy with you. All they care about is that you sit in your office 8 to 5, obey administration and the only word in your vocabulary should be "yes, sir/ma'am". Students hate their teachers, but are punished if they voice their dissatisfaction. When you sign your contract they give you one number for your salary and what you actually get is about half of that amount. They make you pay for your own insurance and cut a huge amount on things that you don't even understand. Your print out will just list a bunch of abbreviations in Turkish and nobody would bother to explain you what they mean. Trying to get an appointment with administration is futile. They are not reachable for ordinary mortals. If you don't have any connections in top administration solving any bureaucratic or administrative issue is unrealistic. I can go on forever, but you get the point. It is a swamp, and I would not wish that on my enemy. Cons: long work hours, large class sizes, shared office space, outdated technology, limited upward mobility I would NOT recommend to a friend. |