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'Students Will be Used as Cheap Labor Under Guise of Internship'

'PRIVATE SECTOR PROTOCOL' FOR HIGH SCHOOLS

'Students Will be Used as Cheap Labor Under Guise of Internship'

The Education and Science Workers' Union has criticized the protocol between the Ministry of National Education and the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey as it will pave way for the use of children as cheap labor.

27 February 2019 Ayşegül Özbek

UNICEF: Turkey Ranks Last in Preschool Education Among 41 Countries

UNICEF: Turkey Ranks Last in Preschool Education Among 41 Countries

According to the report entitled “An Unfair Start: Inequality in Children’s Education in Rich Countries” released by UNICEF Office of Research, Turkey has ranked the last among 41 countries in terms of preschool education.

31 October 2018

Presidential Spokesperson: Single-Gender Education Can Also Be Given

Presidential Spokesperson: Single-Gender Education Can Also Be Given

Presidential Spokesperson İbrahim Kalın has said, “No one forces parents to send their children to mixed-gender or single-gender schools, but we are offering alternatives.”

12 September 2018

Greatest Increase in Inflation Rates in Education Sector

Greatest Increase in Inflation Rates in Education Sector

The Turkish Statistical Institute has announced the monthly inflation inflation rates for September 2017. The monthly inflation rate has risen by 0.65% in September and the yearly inflation rate has reached 11.2%.

Guide Against Homophobia for Teachers

Guide Against Homophobia for Teachers

The applied program carried through by Dr. Ummak to diminish homophobia in the area of education has been published into a book titled “Empirically Tested Group Guidance for Dealing with Homophobia”.

Scholarships Granted by Science Council Halted

Scholarships Granted by Science Council Halted

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey has stopped scholarship payments of both master and doctorate studies included in 2211-Domestic Postgraduate Scholarship Program.

Suggestions for Education Rights of Refugee Children

İSTANBUL BİLGİ UNİVERSİTY CHILD STUDIES UNIT

Suggestions for Education Rights of Refugee Children

ÇOÇA has brought a series of propositions for the Syrian refugee children ranging from language courses to the need of translator, from the administrators learning to look at the matter based on rights to giving teachers psycho-social support.

Suggestions for Syrian Refugee Children to Access Education

Suggestions for Syrian Refugee Children to Access Education

32 non-governmental organizations made a mutual statement and expressed Syrian refugee children can’t take advantage of right to education and indicated it was an obligation for the state not a favor. Organizations proposed solutions.

Demirtaş: Kurds Fighting the State for 100 Years for Their Mother Tongue

Demirtaş: Kurds Fighting the State for 100 Years for Their Mother Tongue

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş indicated Turkish language had been taught compulsorily and mother tongue based education was still forbidden in reply to Minister of Education’s statement “We teach Kurdish students Turkish well. They learn it in playtime.”

Fundraising Campaign to Save School in Şemdinli

Fundraising Campaign to Save School in Şemdinli

Şemdinlihaber, a local news website, launched a fundraising campaign to rebuild a ruined secondary school building after two consecutive arson incidents in the past year.

30 January 2013

“New Regulations to Adapt Children to Government’s Education Policy”

“New Regulations to Adapt Children to Government’s Education Policy”

The Education Ministry has introduced a new set of criteria to determine whether a child is fit to start primary school. Prof. Fatma Gök, however, warned the initiative is more about making the children adapt to the government’s policy, rather than the other way around.

24 August 2012 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

“We Did Not Ask for Alevi Courses”

“We Did Not Ask for Alevi Courses”

Prominent representatives of Turkey’s Alevi minority sharply criticized the government’s move to include elective courses on the Alevi faith in school curricula as part of the new controversial education reform bill.

15 June 2012 Nilay Vardar

Annual Military Expenditures in Turkey: 15. 3 Billion Dollar

Annual Military Expenditures in Turkey: 15. 3 Billion Dollar

12 April is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending. Eğitim-Sen President Kılıç underlined a steady increase in military expenditures in Turkey and claimed, "We want financial recourses for education, not for the military".

Headscarf as Potential Reason to Take Children from Their Families

RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

Headscarf as Potential Reason to Take Children from Their Families

Social Service expert Karatay said that children can be taken away from their families by the state in case they are not sent to school because of wearing a headscarf. He indicated that the child's mental and intellectual development would be obstructed by a deprivation of education.

26 October 2010 Semra Pelek

4.7 Million Illiterate Women in Turkey

4.7 Million Illiterate Women in Turkey

10 percent of the Turkish population is illiterate according to the Turkish Statistical Institute. 84 percent of this group are women. Even if the Turkish education system succeeds in time to make more people literate, this cannot close the gap between men and women.

25 August 2010 Burçin Belge

Parliamentary Commission Requests "Judicial News Editorship"

Parliamentary Commission Requests "Judicial News Editorship"

A report issued by the Parliamentary Human Rights Examination Board suggests considering an alternative "judicial news editorship" in the media, training programs for court correspondents and raising professional standards.

24 May 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

Danish Students Visited bianet

Danish Students Visited bianet

A group of Danish high school students visited bianet to obtain information about freedom of expression in Turkey, government's policies and the role of the media in relations between Turkey and the EU and in communications between people.

25 March 2010 Erhan Üstündağ

Communication Students from Izmir Visit bianet

Communication Students from Izmir Visit bianet

A group of students from the Izmir Economics University's Department for Media and Communication visited the bianet offices on 8 March. The news site editors informed the students about the work of bianet, its publication policies and independent journalism.

10 March 2010 Bawer Çakır

Ground-Breaking Decision on Early Marriage

Ground-Breaking Decision on Early Marriage

Lawyer Kayar appreciated Judge Karınca's decision to take the families economic situation and the children's education into account in cases related to early marriage permit. Kayar emphasized that families should be counselled throughout the entire case.

29 January 2010 Burçin Belge

Girls in Turkey Work 30 Hours a Week

World Day against Child Labour

Girls in Turkey Work 30 Hours a Week

According to an ILO report, female child workers in Turkey work around 30 hours a week.

12 June 2009 Tolga Korkut

Ministry Allows Schoolgirls' Engagement, Specialists Concerned

Ministry Allows Schoolgirls' Engagement, Specialists Concerned

A change in regulations both makes it possible for engaged girls to continue their education and for school girls to be engaged. The question is whether this is what Turkey needs...

30 April 2009 Erhan Üstündağ

What Do Children Want from Local Government?

500 children in Istanbul and Ankara were asked about their wishes in a study entitled “Children make demands on local authorities”.

Students face daily human rights violations in books:

School Books are Turkish, Muslim, Male, Heterosexual and Racist

The findings of the second project of monitoring Turkish school books for human rights violations, run by the History Foundation and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, have been published as a book.

16 March 2009 Bawer Çakır

Crisis Will Increase Child Labour

Crisis Will Increase Child Labour

An increase in poverty will lead to more children working. Children’s centres need to be improved to prevent children from working in the street and education support must be a priority.

28 January 2009 Ercüment Erbay

Curriculum Needs To Be Taken From The Hands Of The Politicians

According to Zübeyde Kılıç of Union of Education and Science Workers, the school books should be prepared by academicians, scientists, educators and the expert union members through detailed discussions.

22 September 2008 Bawer Çakır

Those Children Who Cannot Go To School…

A new school year has just started, but there are still many children who cannot go to school or receive the education they need. The sexual equality still continues.

8 September 2008 A. Nilüfer Zengin Kürkçü

Compulsory Religious Education is Hypocritical Violation of Rights

Constitutional law expert Gürcan has criticised the continuing obligation of school children to attend Religious Education classes and has described the attitude of the AKP as hypocritical.

11 March 2008 Tolga Korkut

UNICEF: Two in Ten People in Turkey Marry Underage

The new UNICEF report on the state of children in the world shows positive developments in child mortality and average life expectancy. However, too many children are still deprived of education or forced to marry underage.

24 January 2008 Gökçe Gündüç

Foundation Investigates Human Rights in School Books

The History Foundation is aiming to scan the books prepared for the new curriculum in a repetition of its 2002-2004 "Human Rights in School Books" project.

28 December 2007 Gökçe Gündüç

In Some Schools No Teacher, in Some No Students

In Some Schools No Teacher, in Some No Students

In Sanliurfa Province, many children are still working in the fields; some schools have not received teachers.

25 September 2007 Erhan Üstündağ

Neo-Liberal Education with an Islamic Sauce

Neo-Liberal Education with an Islamic Sauce

Hüseyin Celik's continuation in the office of Minister of Education, as well as the compromise reached between the AKP and the military, does not bode well for children and teachers.

9 September 2007 Erhan Üstündağ

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