Journal of Turkish Social Sciences Research

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the curriculum of higher education institutions where the Bus Captain Program is active and to try to create literature about the Bus Captain Program by referring to the practices in different countries. The data of the study are listed as the applications of bus captaincy in different countries, higher education institutions with Bus Captain Program, the status of the existing programs as active or inactive, general quota information, compulsory courses, elective courses and internship practice. The data of the study were collected by document scanning method, which is a data collection method within qualitative research methods, and subjected to content analysis. While the document review was based on publications whose reliability and representativeness were checked, the quantitative data were created with the help of information notes accessed through ÖSYM, YÖK Atlas and the web pages of the relevant higher education institutions. Accordingly, it was observed that there was a large number of courses related to legislation among the compulsory courses, and it was understood that Management and Organization, Human Resources Management and Mathematics courses, which were evaluated in the compulsory courses group, were not directly related to the profession of bus captain or driver. It was concluded that the number of elective courses varies on the basis of vocational schools.