NATIONAL EDUCATION AT THE BEGINNING OF 2001

DEFINITIONS OF CERTAIN TERMS IN MONE SOURCES

Open Primary Education School: The institution that facilitates the citizens, who have graduated from primary school before however, could not go on with secondary education, with the opportunity to finish primary education through distance education method.

Open Learning High School: Institution providing service to students willing to get transferred to open learning high school while enrolled in high schools, who are old for formal education and could not be enrolled in formal education institutions providing face to face education due to various impossibilities.

Nursery: Independent institution opened for education of children between 37-72 months of age.

Nursery Class: Classes opened within formal and non-formal education institutions for the education of children between 61-72 months of age.

Merged Class: More than one grade educated by a single teacher in a single classroom.

Scholarship: Supporting the students fulfilling the necessary conditions without return though providing certain amount of money.

Education with Scholarship: Providing education opportunity through money assistance of no return in second level and secondary education institutions to students fulfilling the conditions mentioned in the regulation concerning Students with Scholarships in Primary and Secondary Education or Boarding Students and Social Assistance Provided to These.

Apprentice: According to apprenticeship convention, individual whose skills, knowledge and working habits are developed on the job as necessitated by the profession in an area of profession.

Children Houses: Boarding social service institution assigned and responsible for providing a healthy personality, physical, educational and psychosocial development of kids in need of protection and when necessary girls and good habits.

Multi Program High School: In settlement areas with center population less than 20.000 and more than 5.000, a general high school preparing the students for higher education and training the intermediary human force necessitated by industrial and service areas and in which vocational and technical programs preparing the students for higher education are implemented under a single management providing education and learning to students in accordance with their interests, desires and abilities.

Course Year: The term covering two semesters starting from the date of initiation of courses till the end of courses.

Term: The education and training period covering at least 90 working days.

Education Tool: Printed or non-printed material to be used in realization of the purposes of instruction programs.

Mentally Disabled Child Capable of Learning: Child with IQ of 45-75 in various scales.

Education Region: Region in suitable size for more efficient provision of education services through shared and effective utilization of education tools and materials, physical capacity and education personnel in education institutions in line with the basic principles and general purposes of National Education so that the education institution complement each other.

Education Course: Courses aiming social and cultural development and increasing of general knowledge of individuals who had not got formal education or left at a certain stage and teaching reading and writing to individuals out of primary education age by complementary literacy courses.

Development Indicator: According to the latest publications by researches of State Planning Organization, quantitative and qualitative development of a province in population, industry and other related service sectors and socio-economical development ratio of that province.

Development Course: Vocational courses for individuals who have been enrolled or completed a vocational program within formal or non-formal education in order to develop the skills and knowledge they have acquired and to adapt to new technologies

Children of Migrant Agricultural Workers: Children at the age of compulsory education who have to stay with their families that survive by working at provisional agricultural works in certain periods and seasonally.

Children of Migrant Families: Children at the age of compulsory education who have to stay with their families that survive by working at various regions as settler migrant and in highland winterland style.

Primary Education Institutions: Public, private primary education school, boarding primary education school and regional boarding primary education school.

Primary Education School: Primary education school with term of 8-year in which children at the age of compulsory education are educated.

Vocational Training at Business Facilities: The training application that means to provide skill training for students of vocational and technical education institutions at business facilities and theoretical training at vocational and technical education institutions or at training centers facilitated by the education institutions or business facilities.

Assistant Master: Individual who have acquired the knowledge, skills and working habits necessitated by a profession and undertake the tasks and operations related to this profession at an acceptable level under the supervision of his master.

Term: The period that starts at the beginning of courses and ends at the beginning of holiday, starts at the end of holiday and ends at the end of course year.

Merging: Program in which mentally disabled children are educated together with their peers at normal schools.

Child in Need of Clinical Care: Mentally disabled child with IQ below 24 at various scales, who can not adapt to life and in need of continuous clinical care at health institutions.

Child in Need of Protection: Child vulnerable to all kinds of social threats and bad habits such as alcohol, prostitution, drugs, beggary, who has been neglected by his/her parents or whose parent/parents are not known, whose physical, moral and mental development is in danger.

Day Care Centers: Day-time social service institution established to take care of kids at the ages of 0-6, to protect their physical and mental health and to equip these kids with basic values and habits in return of a fee.

Course: Activity aiming to provide new information, skill, attitude and behavior in accordance with an education program and ending with success evaluation.

Undergraduate: Higher education covering a program of at least eight terms following secondary education.

Graduate: Graduate, Ph.D., Medical Specialty and Higher Art Degree.

Central School: The education institution in which students from surrounding schools and settlement areas are educated.

Vocational Course: In line with the personal interest areas, qualifications and capabilities of individuals, courses consisting of theoretical information as well as practical education for development of skills necessary for that profession in order to get ready for middle and advanced level professional employment.

Vocational and Technical Open Learning School: Vocational and technical education institution that aims to provide education opportunity to individuals who have completed primary education but been unable to have vocational education for various reasons, vocational knowledge and skills to individuals who were unable to enroll in any higher education institution by implementing distance education and face to face education programs when necessary.

Board of Principals: The board consisting of highest rank supervisors of the Ministry’s central organization.

School Region: The population area consisting of settlement areas that could provide sufficient number of students for a primary or secondary education school.

Enrolment Ratio: The ratio of age population of primary, secondary and higher education students to the number of students at primary, secondary and higher education.

Secondary Education Institution: General, vocational and technical education institutions of at least three years following primary education.

Examination for Raising the Average: Regardless of the success average at the end of the year, the examination done for providing the opportunity of raising their cumulative to students or passing their classes through this exam by being successful in the course/courses they have failed.

School with Students’ Transported: Primary education school covered by merged class implementation included in transportation.

Settlement Area with Students’ Transported: Village and sub-village settlement areas with the students covered by transport education.

Child with Learning Difficulty: Regarding mental performance, due to material and cultural inadequacy of his/her surroundings, child that does not have interest and experience in education and training, or due to organic and functional reasons, child with special understanding, reading – writing, drawing, realization and conceptualization difficulties.

Academic Year: The period from the start of the course year to the start of the next course year.

Evaluation, Assessment and Placement Center: Center established within General Directorate of Education Technologies with the purpose of performing and evaluating public and private exams through central system.

Formal Education: To individuals in certain age group and the same level, regular education provided in a school through programs prepared in accordance with the purpose.

Child in Need of Special Education: Due to extraordinary differences in physical, emotional, mental, social situations and characteristics, children at the age group of 4-18, who can not benefit from normal education services.

Special Education: Education provided in a suitable atmosphere through personnel specifically trained for education of children in need of special education and through education programs developed with this purpose in accordance with the disabilities and characteristics of these children.

Special Class : Class to be opened in every type and level of school under the Ministry providing public and private education for children in need of special education such as visually impaired, hearing impaired, hearing deficiency, physically disabled, gifted, talented etc.

Dormitory: Place where accommodation, shelter and food necessities of students of boarding schools at primary and secondary education schools are met

Primary Education School with Dormitory (PİO): In central settlement areas, the primary education institution opened in order to provide free boarding and day-time education to students.

Free Boarding School Students: Providing accommodation, food, clothing and pocket money necessities f students fulfilling certain qualifications at primary and secondary education institutions free of charge.

Free Boarding School Education: Providing education to students who fulfill the conditions mentioned in the regulation regarding the Free Boarding School Students or Students with Scholarships at Primary and Secondary Education and Social Assistance Provided to Them.

Student with Official Scholarship: Students selected by the Ministry through an exam and sent abroad in return of compulsory service for graduate education with the expenses covered by the Ministry or related institutions.

Student without Official Scholarship: Students who have been receiving official scholarship but have to continue their education with their own resources due to termination of their official scholarships for various reasons.

Class Teacher: Individual whose 1^st Major is class teacher post. In primary education grades 6., 7. and 8. And in secondary education institutions, the class teacher helps orientation of students in her/his class in accordance with their interests, skills and abilities, cooperates with the parent and the student in determination of elective area lessons and other elective courses, regulates the relations of the student with the environment, school administration and teachers.

Full Day Full Year Education: In order to make maximum use of physical capacities of vocational and technical formal education institutions, education and training provided in the weekends, semester holidays and summer holidays from 07.00 to 24.00.

Bussed Primary Education: Where there are no primary education schools or where the schools are closed for education and in primary education schools in which merged grades exist, implementation to facilitate training and education of students at primary education schools through transporting them to primary education schools in selected centers every day.

Bussed Central Primary Education School: The primary education school in which the students transported from around are educated.

Basic Education: Providing certain quality and level of education to the individual regardless of his/her age within formal or non-formal education system.

Master: An individual who has acquired the skills, working habits, knowledge necessitated by a profession, who can implement these at standards approved by the professional life in production of services and goods, who can plan production, who can solve the problems occurring during production, who can express his/her thoughts in writing and orally, who can make practical calculations regarding production.

Master Trainer: 1. An individual who has acquired mastership proficiency, who is responsible from the education of candidate apprentices, apprentices, assistants and students of vocational high schools at the workplace, who knows and implements vocational education techniques. 2. An individual who has acquired mastership proficiency with a certificate in the related area and appointed as instructor at courses on contract basis, temporary contract basis or in return of additional course fee.

Practice Class: The pre-primary education class opened in other education institutions under MONE for the education of children between 37-72 months.

Primary Education Regional School with Dormitory (YİBO): Eight-year free primary education institution established under the same management in settlement areas with less or scattered population.

Non-Formal Education: Education provided to citizens who have never been within the formal education system or left at a certain level or at a certain level.

Training and Complementary Course: Course of four weeks opened for students at primary education age in the primary education schools.

Training and Complementary Grade: Grades of five weeks or longer opened for students at primary education age in the primary education schools.

Training and Complementary Grades and Courses Program: The education program to be implemented for children who were unable to get education together with the children at the same age for various reasons although they are at the age of compulsory education.

Mentally Disabled Child: Due to stagnation, slowing down or regression in mental development, children who are always behind or insufficient from the children at same age in ¼ ratio or more in terms of adaptation and behaviors.