Secondary school

The grades of a nationwide high school entrance exam will be recalculated for 371 non-Muslim students who were exempted from questions on the Islamic faith, as their scores on the religion section of the exam were calculated as zero, which lowered their overall grade, Turkish Education Ministry sources told daily Hürriyet on June 30.

More than 17 million Turkish students have begun a three-month vacation, as the academic year for pre-college level educational institutions ended on June 12.

A total of 17,559,989 students have received their report cards for the end of the academic year. The upcoming academic year for elementary, middle and high schools will begin on Sept. 14.

The Ministry of Culture, Education and Religion has submitted modifications to the draft bill on fighting violence in sports, voted in principle at the relevant Parliamentary committee on Tuesday night.

By Maria Katsounaki

The World Bank's Managing Board approved, on Monday, a loan of 200 million euros for the project ROSE (Romania Secondary Education Project) aimed at increasing the chances for undergraduate students to finish higher education, which will be implemented by the Education Ministry for a period of seven years, a World Bank release informs.

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The curriculum of the guidance and career planning classes in secondary schools has been renewed in a gender discriminative manner, daily Cumhuriyet has reported.

The revised program for the guidance and career planning classes states that students should be told of social gender roles and guided to make their choices accordingly.

A district educational board in the southern province of Osmaniye has sent a program including religious practices to all preschool institutions, according to Turkish daily Milliyet. 

The 21-page program, which was marked "urgent," has been sent to schools in the Kadirli district, reportedly giving the details of "Values Education" at preschool institutions.

The education council’s controversial decisions ‘enligthen education’s future,’ according to the education minister, despite harsh opposition criticism Turkey’s National Education Council committees have completed their annual meetings, after taking a number of headline-grabbing decisions that could shape the future of the country’s education system.

In the 2013-14 academic year, we had almost 3 million high school students and just over 2.5 million vocational and technical high school students. Every year, almost 800,000 students graduate from high schools and vocational/technical high schools. In the coming years, this figure will exceed 1 million.

An education sector trade union has applied to Turkey’s Education Ministry to make liquor service classes, which are taught in vocational high schools specializing in hotel management and tourism, an elective course.