Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

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The purpose of Higher Education is not only to equip individuals with technical knowledge and skills for business life but also to provide them scientific knowledge and skills in the highest level of professional values within a universal structure of educational institutions. In the formation of professional identity and qualifications, the craft knowledge is a prerequisite but is not sufficient. The shared values, attitudes, principles ofprofessional ethics, acquired by the member of a profession, are extremely decisive in the phase of applying and presenting knowledge. As it is known, today's rapidly changing and developing economic activities with their new branches have made the Professional Ethics a highly disputed issue. Accordingly, social ethics, scientific ethics and professional ethics training at the universities have gathered increasing attention and have become an extremely important factor for social and professional outlook of the students. In this study, questions, determining professional ethics training and forming students ’ perception and awareness of professional ethics, have been posed to the students in vocational school of a foundation university and the results have been evaluated. The aim of this paper is presenting attitudes and behaviors related to students in a higher vocational school to age, gender, the cities they live in, internship, scholarships, ethical training. In the study, survey technique has been used and the data has been analysed by frequency analysis and non-parametric test. In addition, the ethical descriptions of the students have been analysed by content analysis based on qualitative analyse. As a result, it has been determined that there is a significant difference by gender among students in terms of ethical perception. There is no significant difference by receiving ethics education, age, internship, scholarships the perceptions of ethics among students.