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The Bologna Process (BS) is an international cooperation in which 49 countries joined together with the aim of creating a European Higher Education Area. The objective of the study is to identify the views of the Chairman of the Bologna Cooperation Commission (BEK) or the Bologna Coordinators of the universities awarded by the European Commission with the ACTS Label in Turkey on BS’s ACTS, Qualifications Framework, Quality Assurance, Employment, Internationalization and Mobility and the positive and negative reflections of BS’s practices. In this context, the research has been prepared in the design and is used by the interview technique. The research work group is made up of the BEK Presidents of 31 universities with the AKTS label in Turkey or the Bologna Coordinators. A semi-configured question form developed by the researcher as a data collection method has been used. The research was conducted by the “content analysis”. Quantitative data in the question form is summarized by frequency distribution. Basic findings obtained from the research results: ACTS calculations are not done consciously in some universities, ACTS applications have not been internalized. Having a monitoring system in the implementation of the National Qualifications Framework will contribute to sustainability. The Higher Education Quality Assurance Regulation and the Higher Education Quality Council established in this framework show that sustainable work in the quality assurance of higher education will be carried out. The activities related to employability of the universities are not at the same motivation and level. Positive reflections of the BS: Diploma Appendix, ACTS, Qualifications Frameworks, etc. The use of the Bologna tools; the presentation of a road map to newly established and undeveloped universities; the creation of opportunities for competitiveness; the increase in measurability; the facility of cooperation; the increase in the recognition of diplomas and institutions; student-centered education; the provision of education-market relationship; the contribution to mobility; the improvement of quality in higher education. The negative reflections of the BS are: unnecessary reporting; excessive workload; lack of continuity; central imposition; perception of interference with the university’s autonomy; the unreliability of the academic and administrative structures that are ongoing; the lack of academic and managerial knowledge of the subject leads to repetitions. In higher education, it is recommended to develop new policies or to improve existing policies.

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