Possible reduction in military service time in the works for trade school grads

The National Education Ministry, headed by Education Minister Huseyin Celik, is preparing to take steps towards revitalizing Turkish trade schools at the high school level, which for the past few years have become less and less attractive to Turkish students. Celik revealed some details of the Trade School Education Development Project (MEGEP) to Hurriyet: Encourage them with insurance possibility "When the students from trade schools become apprenticed, they receive insurance. Now we are wondering, could be insure them from the beginning of high school? This could really encourage attendance. This would of course have financial implications, and we are examining the possibility."  Possible lowering of military service requirement for trade school graduates "We are working with the Defense Ministry to see whether we could bring a military service advantage to trade school graduates. Currently, graduates of trade schools enjoy no advantage as far as military service is concerned. They are treated the same as normal high school graduates. We are proposing that while a normal high school graduate serves for 15 months, a trade high school graduate only have to serve for 14 months or less, and that the 12 months required for a trade college graduate be reduced to 11 months or so." Â