ERSU ABLAK
How to fix the education system?
Unfortunately every year the quality of education in our beloved country sinks even deeper. I have written before, Turkey lags far behind in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores compared to countries with which it wants to compete. Now that there is a university in almost every city, there are more students than ever in Turkish history. But quantity does not guarantee quality. Those who can make it to university and somehow have graduated are most likely to be added to the already high jobless youth statistics. Turkey’s youth unemployment rate was at 18.50 percent in April and 21.50 percent last year. However, these numbers are not really showing the actual reality, because they don’t include the number of youth who gave up looking for jobs. If you just take a look at the local coffee houses, called “kahve” in Turkish, you will see many young people playing cards all day. And this is even after thousands of people were recruited into the police and the “neighborhood guard” units.
August 02 2018
