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The Council of State has lifted a regulation permitting governor's offices to unilaterally convert ordinary high schools into vocational religious high schools without considerating the needs of locals, a Turkish education union announced on Dec. 28.

Turkey's college graduates lag behind even Japanese high school dropouts, according to Turkish Education Association's (TED) think tank TEDMEM's "2016 Education Evaluation Report."  

The level of education of a university graduate in Turkey is lower than a high school dropout in Japan, the findings of the report showed. 

The Higher Education Board (YÖK) on Dec. 19 denied reports that it is preparing to introduce a new system for high-school graduates' entry to university programs. 

"There has not been any work from YÖK concerning the university admission system. There are no talks with any other ministry either, unlike what was asserted in the related news report," the YÖK stated. 

University entrance exams begin on Monday for more than 100,000 senior high school students in Greece.

A total of 103,366 pupils will be sitting the exams over the next few weeks to gain a place at one of the state-run universities or technical colleges (TEI).

Almost 70,000 places in tertiary education are available this year.

The results of the first phase of the university entrance examination (YGS) were announced last weekend. This year, a total of 2,084,000 people took the YGS, including around 913,000 senior year high school students.    

Singapore’s newest junior college has recently unveiled its new name causing many concerns on its pronunciation and its relativity to ordinary Singaporeans and the school’s future students.

The Greek high school on Turkey?s northwestern island of Gökçeada, which could not open in 2014 as its building was deemed physically unprepared by the Education Ministry, is set to open this year after a 40-year closure. 

As many as 18 million students in preparatory, primary, elementary and high schools all across Turkey are set to begin the 2015-16 academic year on Sept. 28, as the three-month summer holiday comes to an end, daily Hürriyet has reported.

5,000 scholarships are being offered to students in the first and second year of senior high school. Extra tutoring will be offered to the students after they sit through tests at 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, for the first year of senior high school and Thursday, September 3 for the second year. Repeat tests will be offered on September 9 and 10.

The high school entrance exam results of 519 non-Muslim students, who were exempt from questions on the Islamic faith, were re-calculated upon notices issued about erroneous calculations, Turkey's Education Ministry said in a written statement late June 30.