The comparison of the training processes and appoinment procedures of the managers in European Union countries and in Turkey

Turkey, in the period of becoming a member of European Union, has started to get a good progress with the improvements in education. In this purpose the efforts taken in various fields of education have been mostly concentrated on teaching and training programmes. However, the changes in education management have been weak. This paper was carried out in order to compare and investigate the training and appointment procedures of school managers in Turkey and the EU member countries. The paper is a qualitative study designed to multiple case study and four countries out of EU members: Sweden, Denmark, Spain and Finland have been selected randomly since they keep up with the modern age and have been taken as the models in all aspects. The driven data was analyzed within the descriptive analysis method. The training and appointment procedures of school managers in Turkey and these four countries have been analyzed and compared. In the analysis and comparison, those have been found out that in these four European countries similar training, appointing procedures are being followed for the education managers; on the other hand, a similar training programme for the school managers is not organized in Turkey and the appointing procedure is totally different.Keywords: School management, Training of school managers, Appoinment of school managers.