Minister of National Education: Paid teaching positions will continue as needed.

03.03.2025 14:53

The Minister of National Education, Yusuf Tekin, made a new statement regarding paid teaching, which closely concerns teachers and those waiting for appointments. Minister Tekin stated that paid teaching will continue based on the need.

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Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin was the live guest on the Soruyoruz program of Lider Haber TV. Touching on teacher positions, Minister Tekin stated that the additional lesson application will continue if needed.

Minister Yusuf Tekin answered questions regarding the frequently discussed paid teaching practice in the public. Emphasizing that such a practice does not exist in the law and the regulations of the Ministry of National Education, Tekin said: "The paid teaching practice is not included in the legislation. The application will continue when needed in exchange for additional lesson fees."

NUMBER OF SCHOOLS SUBJECT TO EXORBITANT PRICES IS 22

Clarifying the price debate surrounding private schools, Minister Tekin stated: "We definitely associate all our young people with a public school. There is no problem of registering at a school for parents who enroll their children in private schools, let’s emphasize that. We do this based on the address-based population registration system in primary and secondary schools. There is no possibility for a parent or a student to say, 'I am going to a private school because I couldn't register.' Parents send their children to private schools as a preference. We have 12,000 private schools that cater to every economic income level. When we look at the figures that have caused public debates about exorbitant prices, among the 12,000 private schools, only 22 are at the limit where they are said to be registering students for this much money. The problem arises here. A service contract is made between the parent and the school. From the ministry's perspective, we can monitor this aspect: is there an exorbitant price increase in these increases?"

"IT IS A CRIME TO INCREASE PRICES EXCESSIVELY"

In our regulation, those who provide services to parents by increasing prices at a rate higher than 5% due to inflation are committing a crime in terms of the regulation. We are now advising our parents here. If such exorbitant increases are the case, if there are situations contrary to our legislation, they should reach out to our ministry or the provincial and district national education directorates, and our colleagues there will carry out the necessary inspections.

"PRIVATE SCHOOLS CANNOT REQUEST MONEY UNDER THE NAME OF TEXTBOOKS"

Some schools behave uniformly in terms of tuition fees, but it has emerged that there needs to be monitoring of exorbitant prices in areas such as books and clothing. With the regulation we implemented at the beginning of the year, we have ensured that as well. If there are any who do not comply, they can inform us. For us to be able to monitor these situations, it needs to be within the economic registration. We cannot see the application if we cannot see your registration. Therefore, we want all the fees paid by our parents in return for the service contracts they made with the school to be within the electronic banking system. If there are records here, we can monitor them. None of our private schools can request any fees from our parents under the name of textbooks.