Education in Turkey

Around 850,000 out of nearly 3 million candidates have qualified to enter higher education programs across Türkiye, the Center for Assessment, Selection and Placement (ÖSYM) has announced after the main placement process was completed.

The State Supervisory Board (DDK) will continue to carry out the process of the cancellation of the 2022 Public Personnel Selection Exam (KPSS), which was canceled over fraud allegation, transparently, says Yunus Arıncı, the head of the DDK.

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"Our report will be presented to the President. It seems that there is a problematic situation," the chair of the DDK, Yunus Arinci, told NTV TV Channel.

Some of the 2022 KPSS questions were allegedly published by a publishing house before the exam. It is claimed that more than 20 questions might have been leaked.

Around 165,691 applications have been received from 171 countries for "Türkiye Scholarships," a government-funded higher education scholarship program for international students, Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy has announced.

Many things have been discussed about the university qualification exams held across Türkiye last weekend but none had expected anything like a 76-year-old woman sitting for the exams in the Black Sea province of Çorum to fulfill her dreams of studying at a law university.

Türkiye has held two-phase university exams over the weekend, with officials saying that the results will be announced on July 20.

Over 3 million students attended the first one on June 18 and some 2 million on June 19.

Local officials across the country took high security measures around the schools where the exams were sat.

The 2021-22 education season has ended on June 17 in Türkiye, with over 18 million students starting their summer vacations after the distribution of the report cards.

School bells will ring once again with the start of the new season on Sept. 12.

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.

The Higher Education Institutions Exam (YKS) will no longer have a threshold starting from this year, according to a decision by Turkey's Council of Higher Education (YÖK).

The decision concerns 2.5 million students preparing for university entrance exams. The placement score will be calculated by adding the secondary education success score to the exam score of candidates.

Gülnur Aybet, a senior adviser to the Turkish Presidency, has been appointed as the permanent representative of Turkey to UNESCO.

The decision of the appointment was published in the Official Gazette on Nov. 20.