Introduction

The education system in Turkey is formed of two main parts as “Formal Education” and “Non-Formal Education”. The stages of the formal education system are pre-school, primary education, secondary education and higher education stages.

Since Turkey has a relatively young population, to prepare the youth to the future, a contemporary and multi-dimensional education system is adopted. According to the 2024-2028 Strategic Plan of the Ministry of National Education (Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı 2024-2028 Stratejik Planı), efforts is made to reach to the disadvantaged youth, to ensure social coherence and equality of opportunities, to avert early leave from school and grade failure. In this context, coordinated studies are conducted and various reports are prepared by the Ministry of Family and Social Services, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the Directorate for European Union under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Works are carried out within the scope of fight against early leave from school and failure, activities for non-formal education services are concentrated on. With the works carried out within the context of protocols concluded with Turkish Employment Agency and KOSGEB, efficiency and continuity of these services are ensured.

The Ministry of National Education is carrying out works on forming a certificate standardisation for the purpose of increasing the quality of personnel and education, sending students abroad with Abroad Postgraduate Education Scholarship, within the scope of Erasmus+ Programme realised as a result of the cooperation with the European Union, student and educator mobility is ensured. With the updates in the legislation in the recent years, new arrangements based on modernised education programs are done. To keep pace with the recent technological developments and to benefit from these, important works are done and the FATİH Project (FATİH Projesi) is realised.