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Türkiye

In addition to upper secondary education institutions that provide face-to-face education at school as part of compulsory education, there are open education high schools in Türkiye that should be considered as an alternative opportunity. These schools offer distance education services. Vocational Open Vocational High School and Open Vocational Imam Hatip High School have face-to-face education courses as well as distance education courses.

Organizational structure of the upper secondary education in Turkey is based on certain school types as a part of compulsory education. These are General Secondary Schools that are categorized as Science High Schools, High School of Social Sciences, Anatolian High Schools, High Schools of Fine Arts and High School of Sports (ISCED 3). All these upper secondary institutions offer four-year educational period. In addition to the general secondary schools, the cycle of upper secondary education includes “Vocational and Technical Schools”.

Organizational structure of the upper secondary education in Turkey is based on certain school types as a part of compulsory education. These are General Secondary Schools that are categorized as Science High Schools, High School of Social Sciences, Anatolian High Schools, High Schools of Fine Arts and High School of Sports (ISCED 3). All these upper secondary institutions offer four-year educational period. In addition to the general secondary schools, the cycle of upper secondary education includes “Vocational and Technical Schools”.

Organizational structure of the upper secondary education in Turkey is based on certain school types as a part of compulsory education. These are General Secondary Schools that are categorized as Science High Schools, High School of Social Sciences, Anatolian High Schools, High Schools of Fine Arts and High School of Sports (ISCED 3). All these upper secondary institutions offer four-year educational period. In addition to the general secondary schools, the cycle of upper secondary education includes “Vocational and Technical Schools”.

 

4+4+4 Education System

A new educational system that came into being as of March 2012 is based on "4+4+4" (the first section (primary school-1, 2, 3,4th grade), the second section (secondary school- 5, 6, 7,8th grade) and the third section (high school-9, 10, 11,12th grade).

 

Basic Education

Education that includes general, vocational and technical high schools that provide three of four years education is called basic education. However, basic compulsory education is 12 years.

 

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                  Constitution of the Republic of Turkey

https://global.tbmm.gov.tr/docs/constitution_en.pdf

 

430         Merging of Schooling Law