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Objectives: In today's, society where innovations and changes are experienced very fast, the concept of lifelong learning guides the education policies of the countries and the practices are implemented by means of various institutions. Importance of continuing education centers, one of the lifelong learning practitioners and operating within the universities, have increased gradually. These centers offer training opportunities to individuals and institutions in various fields. In this study, it is aimed to present comparatively the role and importance of continuous education centers in Turkey in state and foundation universities on lifelong learning. Method: For this purpose, web sites of continuous training centers in Turkey was examined by content analysis method. Results: At the end of the study; it was determined that the education programs opened in the CECs at foundation universities were more than the state universities. It has also been found that the general tendency of CECs in foundation universities is towards more markets than CECs in state universities, and that the concept of lifelong learning meet needs of the market focusing on vocational education. When the numbers of the education programs, where opened, are taken into consideration; It is concluded that the CECs in the foundation universities are more active.

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