Youth

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 Onassis Foundation has offered to step in and provide the money needed for Greek students to take part in academic competitions after the government said it would no longer be able to provide the 50,000 euros needed for the trips to take place.

In 2013, a majority (51.2%) of women in the European Union (EU) gave birth to their first child when aged in their 20s, while 40.6% became mothers in their 30s. In addition, more than 127,000 births of first children in the EU in 2013 were to women aged less than 20 (teenage mothers) and around 65,500 to women aged 40 and over.

My piece about Aysel Ek?i?s book titled ?Youth in Turkey and in Five Continents? (Türkiye?de ve Be? K?t?ada Gençler) has received interest and inquiries beyond my expectations.

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.

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.

The Black Sea city of Varna is to be the European Youth Capital (EYC) in 2017, a jury panel announced Wednesday evening.

At a special ceremony held in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca (2015's winner), the final decision was revealed after having been taken in Brussels last week.

One person commits suicide every 40 seconds, an avoidable tragedy that fails to grab attention because of taboos and stigma, a UN report said Sept. 4.
      
In a study released three weeks after the apparent suicide of Hollywood great Robin Williams, the World Health Organization also warned that media reporting of suicide details raises the risk of copycat behaviour.

Turkey’s Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı plays down the worry of chaos amid reports that thousands of students were placed in schools against their will following the TEOG exam results Turkey’s education minister has sought to downplay the catastrophic ongoing situation in Turkey’s secondary education system, after a large number of students were controversially placed in

Almost 73,000 teenagers received the good news Thursday that they have gained places at university or technical colleges (TEIs) but it appears that new questions are to be raised about the viability of some departments due to the low number of students who will be following courses there.