Özet:

This study will examine the practices that the education policy of Turkey in the position of the candidate country to the European Union is made in accordance with the policies of the Union countries, primarily life-long education. Public policies, which emerged in the 20th century, which began to be interested in Turkey since the 2000s and are one of the basic elements of public administration, from the 1980s have been influenced by the process of change that has occurred with the new public administration taking the place of the traditional management concept in public administration. In the Turkish public sector, education is a service area with a broad and long-term impact from other sectors in terms of both the creation of employment and the related sectors. Turkey’s educational policies and the educational system implemented in accordance with these policies seem to be insufficient in responding to today’s needs. Therefore, the continuation of social dynamism is becoming increasingly difficult. The access to education in the national education policy of Turkey is still more problematic for certain sections, the problems of professional education, the lack of skills given by education in front of today's needs, the lack of sufficient public resources for education, the right to education and the social state understanding to go to the way of privatization by leaving the side, etc. It has not been able to educate the skilled human power for reasons. There has been a change in the education policy of Turkey over the past twenty years. Due to the problems in the education policy of Turkey, the first transformations occurred in the 1990s in accordance with the demand of the World Bank, and since the 2000s, the European Union was the main axis of the transformation.  The aim of the study is to reveal the national education policy and problems of Turkey, to explain the changes in the policies in the EU membership process and to explain what to be done to the global education standards.  In the study, the problems in the education policy of Turkey were revealed, the changes in the process of adjustment to the European Union and what should be done for the global education standards were discussed together.