03.02.2022 ANKARA
154 new schools will be built in 154 counties thanks to the National Education Contribution Protocol signed by the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) with the Ministry of National Education. TOBB President Rifat Hisarciklıoğlu said, “We are coming to the end of our 81 school projects in 81 provinces. But we're not stopping here, we're starting a new, bigger endeavor now. We are working towards for 154 new schools in 154 counties.”
The Union of Chambers
and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), which reached the final point in the
81 and 81 school campaigns, has signed a new project in education.
TOBB's education move
was announced to the public with a protocol ceremony held in TOBB Twin Towers
Conference Hall. Minister of National Education Prof. Dr. Mahmut Özer, TOBB
President Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu and a total of 365 Chamber – Commodity Exchange
Presidents attended the ceremony, where the details of the project were also
announced.
TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu
stated that as TOBB, they believe that education is Turkey's primary issue, “We
acted with this vision and saw the need to bring new schools to our country as
the most important investment area. With the decision taken by our TOBB Board
of Directors, we made 81 schools in 81 provinces and gave them to our nation
and our cities.”
- “As TOBB, the total
volume of all investments and supports we have made for education has reached
3.587 billion liras”
Hisarcıklıoğlu stated
that the total volume of investments and supports they made for education as
TOBB reached 3.587 billion liras, “As the private sector, we complained that
vocational education did not meet the needs.
We wanted to increase
public-private cooperation in vocational education and strengthen the role of
the private sector. We wanted vocational education to be the most important
means of meeting the human resources of the private sector. It's been on our
agenda for 20 years. Thanks to our Minister Mahmut Özer, we have seen both
great support and important actions in this regard.”
- “We are working
towards 154 new schools in 154 counties”
TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu
emphasized that they have launched a new and very important initiative for the
sector and Turkey and that they are proud and happy about it.
“We are coming to the
end of our 81 school projects in 81 provinces. But we're not stopping here,
we're starting a new, bigger endeavor now. We're working towards 154 new
schools in 154 counties. We are bringing new schools to our 154 counties where
our chambers and exchanges operate. Good luck to our counties. We are proud to
carry out education and social responsibility projects that once stood as
distant targets.”
TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu
informed that the number of educational facilities built for Turkey by TOBB
reached 307 with the protocol they signed today and shared information about
154 schools and 154 new educational facilities to be built.
- “We work with the
awareness that investment in education will never incur loss”
Hisarcıklıoğlu pointed
out that they work with the awareness that investments in education will incur
loss, and said, “We prepare our young people for the future. As Turkey's
entrepreneurial power, we will continue to invest in the future of our country.
As Mustafa Kemal
Atatürk, the founder and leader of our country, emphasized; 'It is thanks to
school; the knowledge and science that school provides; the art, economics and
literature of the Turkish nation will develop.' May our schools be a gift to
the future of our country, its young people and tomorrow's leaders.”
With this protocol, TOBB
is leading the implementation of a total of 307 schools with 153 schools
including 26 primary and secondary schools, 67 high schools, 11 faculties, 21
student dormitories, 13 indoor gymnasiums, 6 workshops and laboratory-like
facilities, 1 university, 8 schools held abroad and 154 new schools in 154
districts.
- Minister of National
Education Mahmut Özer
Minister of National
Education Mahmut Özer pointed out that the most innocuous and risk-free
investment is the investment in education, “The most permanent and sustainable
capital of the countries is human capital. For this reason, as the Ministry of
National Education in Turkey, like all countries, we continue to work day and
night to increase the quality of our human capital.”
Özer stated that it is
very valuable not only to invest with public resources, but also to manage
education investments together with voluntary stakeholders in education. “For
this reason, I am really happy to cooperate with TOBB, the most ancient and
powerful stakeholder of the Ministry of National Education, in increasing the
access, capacity and efficiency of their children to qualified education. I
offer my sincerest gratitude to our TOBB President for his successful work over
the years.”
Minister Özer continued:
“TOBB is the biggest contributor to the recovery, which has wrecked the
coefficient application in 1999, which has been a chronic problem in vocational
education for years, as a gift to Turkey of the February 28 process. TOBB conducted
research and field scans to create 'Know-How' (information that enables the
most efficient or easiest use of a product, a method) while making concrete
investments in the labor market.”
- “The phrase ‘I can't
find the guy I'm looking for’ will be history”
Minister Özer said that
their transformation regarding the Vocational Training Center will throw the
words expressed by the employer for years, “I can't find the employee I am
looking for; apprentices do not come,” to the dustbin of history.
Following the speech of
Minister Özer and Hisarcıklıoğlu, the cooperation protocol was implemented
after signing. After signing the protocol, Minister Özer emphasized the
importance of the protocol, saying, “It is the best signature I have ever made
during my ministry period”. The Vocational Training Consultation Meeting part
of the meeting continued closed to the press.
(UAV)