2. General Information about Turkish Education
System
Official Language: Turkish
Alphabet: Latin Alphabet
Academic Year: September through June
Duration of Schooling: 4+ 4 + 4
Compulsory Schooling: 12 years (ages 6-17)
3. General Information about Turkish
Education System
Number of Schools About 62.000
Number of Students (formal Education) 17.2 Million
Number of Teachers 832.000
7. Pre-Primary Schools
involves the education of children in the age
group of 3 to 5 who have not reached the age
of compulsory primary education
They are optional
Their objective is to ensure that children develop
physically, mentally and emotionally and ready
for Primary Education
9. Primary Schools
primary school age group is 6 to 9.
It’s compulsory.
Primary Education is free all state schools.
Foreign Language lessons will start at 2nd grade
with new law (Previously it was at 4th grade)
Students have 3 hours of English lesson in a week
10. Primary Schools
The purpose of primary education is to ensure that
every child :
acquires the basic knowledge, skills, behaviors, and
habits to become a good citizen,
is raised in line with the national moral concepts and
is prepared for life and for the next education level
parallel to his/her interests and skills.
12. Lower Secondary Schools(Elementary)
Lower Secondary school age group is 10 to 13.
It’s compulsory.
Lower Secondary Education is free all state
schools.
Students have 4 hours of English lesson in a week
14. Secondary Schools (High Schools)
Secondary Schools age group is 14-19
With a new Law in 2012, four years of Secondary
school is also compulsory today.
Secondary Education is free all state schools.
Students have to take two general exams shortly
called YGS-LYS to enroll a University.
Every year about 2 million students attend these
exams and 630,000 students get a chance to
enroll any faculty, four or two-year college
according to their points. So this exam is very
important for every student.
15. Secondary Education
There are 5 main types of high-schools in Turkey.
Public High-Schools
Anatolian High-Schools
Science High-Schools
Vocational High-Schools
Military High Schools
16. Our School is…
A Public High School.
4-year-education
Minimum number of lessons in a week 30.
Maximum number of students in a class is 30
We have 3 hours of English lesson at 9th grade
and 2 hours at other grades
17. Main Lessons at High School
Maths
Physics
Chemistry
Geometry
Biology
Turkish Language and Literature
History
Geography
Foreign Language (English)
18. Secondary Schools
The purpose of secondary education is:
to give students a minimum
common culture,
to identify individual and
social problems,
to search for solutions,
and to prepare the students for
higher education, for profession, for life
and for business in line with their interests
and skills.
19. Higher Education (Universities)
University Education is mostly 4 years
But, Faculty of Medicine is 6 years
Vocational Education is 2 years
Students apply Universities with their YGS-LYS Exam
Grades (University Entrance Exams)
University number in Turkey: 173
State University number: 107
Foundation (Private) University number: 66
20. Most Popular 5 Departments at
Universities
1. Faculty of Law
2. Faculty of Medicine
3.Preschool Teaching
4.Faculty of Engineering
5. Psychological counseling and guidance
21. University Education
Faculty of Education is very popular.Many
students want to be teacher.
At the end of University education, students
should enter another exam called KPSS to work
for government.
Government give scholarship for thousands of
students who have economic difficulties.
22. University Education
Main Aims :
1. Train students according to our country’s
science policies and the need for labor in higher
and various levels of the society
2. Providing scientific training at various levels,
3. Doing research exploring sciences in further
detail in order to finding solutions to scientific,
technical and cultural problems especially to
ones related to our country
23. FACTS about Turkish Education System
Compulsory education starts at the age of 6.
A lesson duration is 40 or 45 minutes.
Course books are given for free for every
student.
Every student will have a tablet pc and each
classroom have a smart board in a few years
with Fatih Project
School Uniform is compulsory until the end of
high school but with new regulation it won’t be
compulsory next year.
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