Dormitory
Students challenge minister to stay at run-down dorm
A group of students from the National Technical University of Athens challenged Education Minister Costas Gavroglou to spend one night at their dorm after presenting a set of damning photographs illustrating poor safety and sanitation conditions to one of his close aides.
Uni campus student residences to get Wi-Fi
The ministries of Education and Digital Policy announced on Friday that student residences on university campuses across the country will be equipped with Wi-Fi networks.
To this end, the General Secretariat of Communications has reportedly secured funding so as not to burden university budgets.
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Education Ministry to supervise 10,000 dormitories after abuse scandals
Some 10,000 private dormitory licenses will be transferred to the supervision of the Education Ministry (MEB), the undersecretary has said, amid cases of child abuse and security issues in local dormitories that have been publicized by the media.
Tension breaks out during student protest outside Education Ministry
Tension broke out between police and university students protesting outside the Education Ministry in Athens on Wednesday.
Protesters were demonstrating over conditions at state-run halls of residence.
Private dorms can't house 2 pupils in one room: Ministry
Two students will no longer be able to stay in the same room, in line with the Education Ministry's new regulation regarding private dormitories, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on July 23.
Two students cannot stay in same room, Turkish Education Ministry says
Two students will no longer be able to stay in the same room, in line with the Education Ministry's new regulation regarding dormitories, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on July 23.
'We could not even see the ashes of our child'
"Whatever happened, all of it happened to us. Nothing happened to anybody else.
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Families say children placed in deadly fire dormitory in Adana's Aladağ 'just to keep it open'
The families of children killed in a dormitory fire in the southern Turkish district of Aladağ in November 2016 have said the local directorate of the Education Ministry placed them in that dormitory simply "to keep it open."
56 percent of dormitories in Istanbul inconvenient: Commission
Some 56 percent of dormitory buildings in Istanbul are inconvenient, a parliamentary commission, which was set up after a dormitory fire on Nov. 29, 2016 in the southern province of Adana's Aladağ district killed 12 people, said March 9, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.
35 kilo of meat saved from burnt dorm
Among so many disasters and bloody attacks, one piece of good news has emerged. Thirty-five kilograms of meat has been saved. Yes, I will answer the fair and appropriate questions you have, such as "What 35 kilos of meat? What meat? What do you mean?"
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