EPAM Director Selim Tiryakiol and his team of researchers visited Istanbul Airport and İbrahim Özaydın Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools.

The first visit was to Talha Bektaş, the principal of Istanbul Airport Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, where we talked about the importance of vocational and technical high schools, their position in the society and the details of the academic and practical education students receive. Afterwards, we examined the workshops and laboratories in the high school.

As EPAM, we visited these high schools, where students and teachers produce and learn together, and witnessed the transformation that vocational and technical high schools are undergoing. The fact that students are ranked in many national and international competitions and become sought-after employees for companies and industry after graduation is proof that these schools train qualified students. Despite all this, school administrators say that the negative perception of vocational high schools in society has not yet been overcome and that they are making great efforts to combat this.