Turkish Council of Higher Education (CoHE) and Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) Sign Cooperation Protocol

CoHE announced that a cooperation protocol was signed between the Council of Higher Education (CoHE) and the Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) to determine the generic standards that include measures for the development of healthy and clean environments at the campuses of Turkish higher education institutions within the scope of the combat against the COVID-19 pandemic and infectious diseases.

The protocol aims to determine training and certification areas, to create work schedules and to make the necessary arrangements for the realization of these topics for the development of healthy and clean environments in higher education institutions within the scope of the combat against the global Covid-19 pandemic and infectious diseases for the provision of hygienic conditions, the contribution to the development of the necessary infrastructures and the implementation and monitoring of infection control measures.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, CoHE President Saraç stated that universities were affected from different angles during the pandemic, and underlined that, as CoHE, they set up a dynamic process parallel to the dynamic course of the pandemic and managed the process with strong coordination and flexible management.