20.06.2025 09:00
Approximately 20 million students studying in primary and secondary education institutions affiliated with the Ministry of National Education will receive their report cards today and start their summer vacation. The new academic year will begin on September 8.
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The 2024-2025 academic year started on September 9, 2024, in preschool, primary, and secondary education institutions.
The first term mid-term break was held between November 11-15, and the second term mid-term break was held between March 31-April 4. The second term, which started on February 3, is concluding today.
Students will shake off the fatigue of the academic year after the last class bell.
The last week of the academic year will be spent with "end-of-term activity week" events aimed at encouraging students to participate in artistic, cultural, sports, and scientific activities.
Students will be able to participate in events organized under the theme "Family and Play" together with their families from June 16-19.
THE FIRST YEAR OF THE TURKEY CENTURY EDUCATION MODEL
With the new curriculum under the Turkey Century Education Model, a series of innovations were implemented in the education processes this year.
The new curriculum, which simplified 35% of the course content, was implemented for the first time in a phased manner starting from preschool, 1st grade of primary school, 5th grade of middle school, and 9th grade of high school, following the start of the 2024-2025 academic year.
In the first levels starting education with the new curriculum, "skill weaving" based textbooks prepared by the Ministry were used this year. In the new books prepared in line with the new curriculum, activities, animations, simulations, digital history, augmented reality, and applications supported by artificial intelligence were included with the aim of enabling students to learn without needing additional resources.
Additionally, as part of the preparations for the 2024-2025 academic year, free textbooks were provided to students, and training on the Turkey Century Education Model was given to teachers.
VOCATIONAL AND SPORTS MIDDLE SCHOOLS ACCEPTED THEIR FIRST STUDENTS
One of the main agenda topics for the 2024-2025 academic year was vocational and technical education. A series of new practices were implemented under the Vocational and Technical Education Policy Document, which has the main philosophy that "everyone should have a profession," to strengthen vocational and technical education and ensure the supply of qualified personnel to the production sector.
After the establishment of craft workshops in the 7th and 8th grades of middle schools, vocational middle schools were opened within vocational and technical Anatolian high schools starting this year.
In order to guide students towards sports at an early age and discover talented students, the country's first "sports middle schools" accepted their first students this academic year within 9 sports high schools determined in 9 provinces.
This year, the Ministry launched the "Velivizyon" platform to strengthen cooperation between schools and families.
The "nationwide common exam" application initiated in the 2023-2024 academic year was expanded to include common exams in Turkish, Turkish language and literature, and mathematics for 6th and 9th grades, and was also applied this year in 7th and 10th grades.
The class parent application was not allowed this year, and measures were taken to prevent parents from coming to school without an appointment.
TEACHERS WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE PROFESSIONAL WORK PROGRAM IN THE PROVINCE OF THEIR CHOICE
The Ministry of National Education (MEB) organized the June 2025 Professional Work Program so that teachers can participate in the provinces of their choice. Accordingly, teachers will be able to attend the June Professional Work Program in suitable educational institutions in the provinces and districts of their choice from June 23-27 and will be considered on administrative leave on June 30.
The oral exams for the recruitment of 15,000 contracted teachers to be conducted by the Ministry will start on June 23. The exams will be held in 5 provinces: Ankara, Bursa, Erzurum, Istanbul, and Konya.
Final year high school students and graduates will experience the excitement of the Higher Education Institutions Exam (YKS) on June 21-22. The first session, the Basic Proficiency Test (TYT), will be held on June 21, and the second session, the Field Proficiency Tests (AYT) and the third session, the Foreign Language Test (YDT), will be held on June 22.
After the announcement of the results of the central exam under the High School Transition System (LGS), which includes inter-level transition exams, placement processes will begin.
The 2025-2026 academic year will start on September 8.
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