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1 mln Turkish students appear in high school qualification exams
Around 1 million Turkish students in eighth grade broke a sweat at the high school qualification exams known as "LGS" across the country on June 5.
The results of LGS will be announced on June 30.
According to the daily Milliyet, there are around 1.2 million eighth-grade students in Turkey, and some 90 percent of them have applied to qualify at LGS.
Visually impaired girl ranks first in five sections of Turkey's national university entrance exam
A visually impaired high school senior in the Central Anatolian province of Konya ranked in first place in five scores of Turkey's undergraduate placement examination.
Fulya Akkaya received the highest score in the TM (Turkish-Math)-1, TM-2, TM-3, TS (Turkish-Social Sciences)-1 and TS-2 categories on the exam, for which the second and last round results were revealed on July 12.
Turkish education ministry launches investigation into principal over segregation of male, female students
The Turkish Education Ministry on June 13 launched an investigation into the principal of a high school in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, two days after he announced on the school's website that classes would be gender-segregated starting from the 2017-2018 education year, Doğan News Agency has reported
Rise in imam-hatips shows AKP’s favoritism for religious education
The massive rise in the number of imam-hatip religious schools in the last four years shows how the AKP has been championing a more conservative education system, according to education reformer Batuhan Aydagül.