Turkey and Syria are set to collaborate on higher education, including exchange of students and academics as well as mutual recognition of diploma equivalency.

A delegation of Turkish Higher Education Board and rectors of several Turkish universities, headed by chairman Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, will travel to Syria this weekend to meet with their Syrian colleagues.

Turkish and Syrian delegations will get together in Latakia to discuss possible cooperation areas, including exchange of students and academics, establishment of research programs and centers, teaching of Turkish and Syrian languages at each others' universities, launching of joint postgraduate programs, cooperation of university hospitals, organization of joint workshops and youth forums.

The delegations will also discuss mutual recognition of equivalence of diplomas.

/World Bulletin/