Curriculum

The Education Ministry will declare details of its sweeping curriculum revision for elementary, middle and high school students by the end of this month.

Following last year's announcement on the works of comprehensive curriculum change, the ministry's reticence in divulging the full scope of the alterations has sparked speculation.

Officials from the Education Ministry concluded 80 percent of their efforts regarding a comprehensive curriculum change aimed at alleviating the content of courses for elementary, middle and high school students, minister Yusuf Tekin has announced.

More than 20 million students across Türkiye returned to their classrooms today as the two-week winter break concluded, marking the beginning of the second semester of the 2023-2024 academic year.

The Education Ministry reported that 20,481,000 students and 1,178,000 teachers affiliated with the schools under the ministry had started their classes on September 11, 2023.

Following the decision of the Education Ministry, teachers will teach students how to deal with peer bullying and cyberbullying within the scope of "School-Based Social Responsibility Studies," taught as an elective course in secondary schools.

The new curriculum will teach students what peer bullying is, what to do if they encounter bullying and how to behave to avoid being bullied.

The Education Ministry is working on a comprehensive curriculum amendment that will encompass all grade levels, aiming to simplify course contents, minister Yusuf Tekin has announced.

Stanford University has offered an 18-year-old Turkish student a scholarship of approximately 10 million Turkish Liras ($500,000).

Efe Zaladin, who graduated from a private high school in the Central Anatolian province of Konya last year, discovered his interest in science as a child.

More than 20,000 applications were submitted for 4,442 places in the 2023-2024 academic year at Greece's public model and experimental schools, an old institution expanded in 2011, all but abolished by the leftist-led SYRIZA government in 2015, and reinstated by center-right New Democracy in 2019.

The age of 5 will be set as the lower limit for compulsory education, while the early childhood education curriculum will be enriched, according to the 2023 Presidential Annual Program.

Within the scope of the new regulations to be made next year in education, early childhood education will also be improved.

As the new school year starts in Poland, the ruling party is overhauling the social studies curriculum supposedly to improve students' historical consciousness. But with a single new textbook, critics warn this is no less than an attempt to indoctrinate youth.

Minister of Education Sorin Cimpeanu informs that the ministry assumes the promotion of the compulsory discipline Education for life, which will include several modules, among which: sex education, civic education, health education, healthy eating education, road safety education or first aid education.