06.07.2021 Ankara
After the announcement of the LGS 2021 results, M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu, President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), stated that it is time to choose for the students who are preparing for a difficult exam due to the pandemic, “I believe that at the end of their choices, our students will settle on our schools that will prepare them for the future. At this point, I invite our young people to choose from among our 113 schools in 81 provinces within the scope of the program we started as MEB, TOBB and TOBB ETU.”
Emphasizing that by
choosing these schools, Hisarcıklıoğlu stated that the diploma of the students
who will prefer these schools will be their profession.
- “As MEB, TOBB and TOBB ETU, we have initiated a major
change and transformation in Vocational High Schools”
TOBB President
Hisarcıklıoğlu reminded that they have moved to a 'new and dynamic' vocational
education model in accordance with the necessities of the age in order to train
the qualified workforce needed by the private sector with the Vocational
Education Cooperation Protocol signed on February 26, 2019. “Within the scope
of the protocol, we started to work with 81 vocational high schools in 81
provinces. With the success we have achieved, the number of schools has reached
113. Behind our schools is the support of MEB, TOBB and TOBB ETU as well as our
Chambers and Exchanges in the provinces and districts. With the public-private
joint management model, we ensure that vocational education is designed in line
with both dynamic and the needs of industry, trade and agriculture through our
Chambers and Exchanges locally. Our youth who will choose our schools, when
they graduate, will not be 'intermediates', but 'sought-out employees'.”
Noting that the most
important anchor Turkey needs to achieve its future goals is human capital,
Hisarcıklıoğlu said: “The human capital we need is made up of our young people
who have qualified vocational training. For this reason, we have a
responsibility as TOBB to educate young people. It fulfills this responsibility
in the best way with the support of our Chambers and Exchanges in 81 provinces.
We are transforming our vocational high schools into centers where our young
people who can become experts in their fields, equipped with the requirements
of the age, where entrepreneurial young people can emerge. With the Vocational
Education Cooperation Protocol, we integrate vocational education with the real
sector. However, we are training young people who will be the entrepreneurs of
the future, who will produce more inventions and more patents in the field of
high technology.”
- 113 schools in 81 provinces provide qualified human
resources needed by the business world
Hisarcıklıoğlu stated
that vocational education through chambers and exchanges has been redesigned
both dynamically and in line with the needs of the sector. “We are setting up
new workshops and laboratories in 113 schools in 81 provinces and renewing
existing ones. We are setting up new workshops and laboratories, renewing
existing ones. We are launching R&D and Design Skills Workshops that will
be an example for all of Turkey. With the support of TOBB ETU, we prepare the
best educational contents and internship system for our young people, and we
give scholarships to our successful students with the support of our Chambers
and Exchanges. We also provide them with internship opportunities abroad. As
the president of the Turkish business world, I invite our young people to
choose our 113 schools in 81 provinces during the LGS 2021 preference period.
You can find out the details about vocational high schools within the scope of
vocational education cooperation protocol at https://meslekiegitim.tobb.org.tr
address.”