Girls’ education lacking in country
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by Serkan Ocak - Radikal
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Haziran 13, 2009 00:00
ISTANBUL-Twenty-one out of every 100 girls between the ages of 15 to 19 do not complete primary school, reveals a report on education that took six years to prepare. An average classroom in Istanbul has 49 students, the report states
A report prepared in association with Istanbul’s Sabancı University shows that girls’ education is lacking in Turkey, where 21 out of every 100 girls between the ages of 15 to 19 have not completed primary school.
According to the Education Assessment Report, which the school’s political center has been working on since 2003, the average classroom in the western Black Sea region has 24 students; the average figures are 44 students in the Southeast and 49 students in Istanbul. "The opportunity to make a contribution to policies that will affect the education of 15 to 16 million children in Turkey is very important to us," said Candan Fetvacı, a member of the board that prepared the report and the general director of the Aydın Doğan Foundation. Prominent figures contributed to the report, with Dr. Kemal Derviş, a former economy minister and head of the United Nations Development Programme, penning the foreword and Dr. Hasan Erel writing the conclusion. The project director, Prof. Üstün Ergüder, made the final presentation of the report, which included some startling statistics.
- While the number of students per primary-school teacher in OECD countries is 16.2, the figure stands at 23.6 in Turkey.
- Around 80,000 additional teachers are required to reduce the number of students per teacher to 20 nationwide.
- Regional disparity is high when it comes to the number of students per classroom, which is, on average, 24 in the western Black Sea region, 44 in the Southeast and 49 in Istanbul.
- Nationwide, there is one computer for every 23 students.
- The number of students between the ages of 6 and 13 who are not registered in the education system stands at 220,000; of this total, 130,000 are girls and 100,000 live in central and southeastern Anatolia. These figures do not include children who have not been registered for a birth certificate.
- Girls’ school attendance rates drop with each year in primary school. The boy/girl ratio in first grade is 0.96, but by the eighth grade it is 0.91.
- In the 15 to 19 age group, 15 percent of students Ğ and 21 percent of girls Ğ have not completed primary school.
- Around 1,200 Turkish Liras are spent per student on primary school in Turkey. This figure is expected to drop by 10 percent this year.
- Primary-school attendance increases by 15 percent in households that have social security.
Primary school in Turkey comprises grades one through eight.
According to the Education Assessment Report, which the school’s political center has been working on since 2003, the average classroom in the western Black Sea region has 24 students; the average figures are 44 students in the Southeast and 49 students in Istanbul. "The opportunity to make a contribution to policies that will affect the education of 15 to 16 million children in Turkey is very important to us," said Candan Fetvacı, a member of the board that prepared the report and the general director of the Aydın Doğan Foundation. Prominent figures contributed to the report, with Dr. Kemal Derviş, a former economy minister and head of the United Nations Development Programme, penning the foreword and Dr. Hasan Erel writing the conclusion. The project director, Prof. Üstün Ergüder, made the final presentation of the report, which included some startling statistics.
- While the number of students per primary-school teacher in OECD countries is 16.2, the figure stands at 23.6 in Turkey.
- Around 80,000 additional teachers are required to reduce the number of students per teacher to 20 nationwide.
- Regional disparity is high when it comes to the number of students per classroom, which is, on average, 24 in the western Black Sea region, 44 in the Southeast and 49 in Istanbul.
- Nationwide, there is one computer for every 23 students.
- The number of students between the ages of 6 and 13 who are not registered in the education system stands at 220,000; of this total, 130,000 are girls and 100,000 live in central and southeastern Anatolia. These figures do not include children who have not been registered for a birth certificate.
- Girls’ school attendance rates drop with each year in primary school. The boy/girl ratio in first grade is 0.96, but by the eighth grade it is 0.91.
- In the 15 to 19 age group, 15 percent of students Ğ and 21 percent of girls Ğ have not completed primary school.
- Around 1,200 Turkish Liras are spent per student on primary school in Turkey. This figure is expected to drop by 10 percent this year.
- Primary-school attendance increases by 15 percent in households that have social security.
Primary school in Turkey comprises grades one through eight.