The field monitoring report on Education
sector for year 2020, prepared by the Research Center for Education Policy (EPAM),
which operates under the umbrella of the İLKE Science and Culture and Education
Foundation (İLKE), was presented before the public through a live broadcast on Tuesday,
April 20, 2021. Besides covering the developments that have taken place in the
field of education in year 2020, in a holistic manner in 2020, the report also
includes several issues from the field that have not been addressed previously.
The report was presented by EPAM’s
Coordinator İbrahim Hakan Karataş and ILKE’s Executive Board Member Foundation
Board Member Yusuf Alpaydın in a live broadcast moderated by İLKE’s Researcher
M. Hüseyin Ergören.
The report comprises different
sections including expert opinions, overview of the education sector, statistical
information related to its different dimension, a chronological chart and
prediction about sector’s progress in the near future. In light of its current
progress and challenges the report also make several recommendations to achieve
improvements in education.
Some prominent highlights from
the report are as follows:
Public and private
schooling in 2020
In the year 2019-2020, enrolment in
preschool was recorded at 41.78% among 3 year olds, 52.41% among 4 year olds,
71.22% among 5 year olds, 93.62% in primary schools, 95.9% in secondary schools,
85.01% in high schools and 43.37% at higher education institutions.
91.2% of students are enrolled in
public schools while 8.8% in private schools. 26% of students attending private
schools are enrolled in pre-school educational institutions, 17% in primary
schools, 22% in secondary schools, 35% in high schools of which 7% of the
students were attending vocational institutes while the remaining 28% were enrolled
at general high schools.
Budget and financing of
education in 2020
In 2020, a teacher received an
average net monthly wage of 5500 ₺, while for each student an average 6590 ₺ was
spent in basic education, 7636 ₺ in secondary education and 14020 ₺ in higher
education.
Covid-19 outbreak revealed
some problems in the education system
It was
seen that the education system was not sufficient in terms of infrastructure,
human resources, content, structure and management in terms of using the modern
technology functionally. In the 2020, a report from Turkish Ministry of revealed
that certain targets planned for 2020 were postponed due to the epidemic while
some others were partially realized.
2020
has been a year when priorities changed
Although
it was announced that the draft Teaching Profession Law was submitted to the
Presidency, there was no development during 2020. There has been no development
regarding the system revision that will bring to the organizational structure
of the education system the desired flexibility and quality.
To access
full version of Field Monitoring Report on Education 2020 and similar publications
please visit www.ilke.org.tr/air.
