While 3 of the decisions taken in the last year after the 2021th National Education Council convened by the Ministry of National Education on 20 December 81 were implemented, the work on the recommendations, including suggestions such as free lunch for students and reducing school dropouts, continues at full speed. .
In his statement on the subject, Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer stated that 128 recommendations were taken, the majority of which were unanimously accepted, at the Council where the themes of "Equal Opportunity in Basic Education", "Improving Vocational Education" and "Professional Development of Teachers" were discussed. reminded me.
In the first impression report regarding the council published in March, Özer stated that while the number of recommendations related to the steps taken by the Ministry was 57, this number increased to 62 in June and to 68 in September, and this number has increased to 81 in the past 1 month. He stated that the relationship between the current policies implemented by the Ministry and the recommendations has been getting stronger in the last year.
Emphasizing that many decisions have been made, such as enacting the Teaching Profession Law, sending a budget to schools, increasing the rate of enrollment at the age of 5, and providing free textbooks to students as well as auxiliary resources, Özer made the following assessments: We take concrete steps by considering the best interests. 81 of the decisions taken in the year after the council were put into practice. In addition, we took various steps regarding 13 recommendations. One of these is the recommendation of 'Providing free lunch or nutritional support in schools'. As you know, the scope of the bussed education, which has been implemented since the 1980s, and the free food service provided to the students staying in the hostels, has been expanded day by day in the last 20 years. Since the beginning of this academic year, we have accelerated our efforts to provide students with free lunch within the framework of the Council's decision. We increased the number of students benefiting from free meals, which was currently 1,5 million at the beginning of the academic year, to 1.8 million. We will now work to increase this number to 5 million as of the second half of the academic year. Thus, we will have taken another concrete step towards increasing the equality of opportunity in education. In addition, 'a comprehensive monitoring study should be conducted based on disaggregated data on students' absenteeism and dropouts at all educational levels.' We have been working nonstop for the last 6 months regarding the recommendation decision. In this context, we aim to reduce our children's school dropouts with the Early Warning System we have implemented.”
Noting that they will continue to follow the decisions of the council, Özer said, “Developing a follow-up and support system that will create effective cooperation between the public, institutions and organizations and relevant NGOs at the local level in order to ensure the participation of children in disadvantaged conditions in the education system”. Enriching the theoretical and practical training on vocational acquisition”, “Encouraging the participation of vocational education institutions in national and international activities in the field of vocational education in order to support national and international competitiveness”, “Making educational institutions compatible with universal design principles in order to ensure accessibility” “1000 in vocational education He underlined that various steps have been taken regarding 10000 decisions such as the school, improving the school environment with 13 school projects in basic education.
Reminding that the decision to fix the rent increase to 25% in school canteens was published in the Official Gazette yesterday, Özer stated that this way, students and teachers will be able to benefit from services at a more affordable price.
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