Turkish Educational System

Atatürk supported our educational system. He did lots of revolutions about education.

In Turkey education first starts in family. Then goes on with preschool, primary education, secondary education and higher education.

Turkish National Education System is based on two main branches: Formal Education & Mass-Media (Open University) Education.

Formal Education Formal Education is an organized education through syllabuses

for the same purposes at the same age group and level of students.

It covers: Pre-school Education Primary Education Secondary Education Higher Education

Pre-school Education

Pre-school Education is not compulsary and it covers the group of children aged between 36 - 72 months.

The ministry of education is trying to increase the number of children participating in this education system by parents training programs, mobile kindergardens, and summer school alternatives.

Primary Education

Primary education covers the group of children aged between 6 –14 years old. It’s compulsary for all girls and boys, and it is free of charge at state schools. The primary education period is 8 years.

Secondary Education

Secondry Education is a system based on the primary education, which covers 4 year period. It is for 14-18 years old students.It includes general, vocational and technical high schools.

Types of General Secondary Education

General High Schools Anatolian High Schools Science High Schools Anatolian Teacher Training High Schools Anatolian Fine Arts High Schools Social Sciences High Schools Sports High Schools The entrance to the secondary education institutions

is through a centralized exam except general high schools.

Vocational and Technical Secondary Education Vocational and

technical secondary schools are institutions that train students for the industrial and service sectors in our country.

Higher Education

Higher education is a system of at least 2 years or more.

In our country there are 93 universities.

The Bosphorous University

Mass- Media Education(Open University) This type of education includes all the

individuals who have never had a formal education or the ones who have not completed.

Mass-media education is performed through apprenticeship traning, public training or media ( TV, radio, mail..). Also this kind of education is supported by courses offered at vocational and technical schools.

Enrollments by Educational Institutions

There are 65.000 schools ( both private and state schools) and 1.735.000 students.

Since the primary education is compulsory there are more students in these schools than the higher education institutions.

2006/’07 covers public and private schools

The Turkish National Educational System aims: learning how to learn active learning student centred learning life-long learning to create a society equipped with knowledge,

democratic, cultural and economic awareness integrity among all educational institutions.