Vocational education center students, whose registered numbers reached 159 thousand in ten months with the multi-faceted efforts to train Turkey's qualified workforce in employment, stated that they were satisfied with the education they received, both because they continued their high school education and by learning a profession at an early age in real business environments. states that they are happy to contribute to his budget.
Students enrolled in vocational education centers in Ankara state that they contribute to the family budget while continuing their high school education.
Vocational training center students, who noted that they received skills training in businesses, noted that they both received one-third of the minimum wage thanks to these trainings, and that they had a certificate of opening a workplace after graduation.
3-year apprenticeship and 1-year journeyman trainings are given in vocational training centers, where anyone who wants to have a profession without age limit can apply. In this context, apprentices receive a wage of 1.658 and journeymen receive a wage of 2.763 TL. It also provides insurance against work accidents and occupational diseases. All these opportunities are provided to students by the state.
Graduates find jobs instantly: Graduate employment participation rate 88%
In vocational training centers where students can get their vocational high school diplomas by giving difference courses and where “beauty, hair care services, motor vehicle technology, food and beverage services” are the most demanded, education opportunities are offered in 33 fields and 181 different branches. Thus, the employment participation rate of graduates in vocational training centers remains at a record level of 88 percent.
Making an assessment on the subject, Minister of National Education Mahmut Özer stated that vocational education is taking firm steps towards becoming Turkey's hope again and said, We achieved a record increase by reaching 10 thousand from 159 thousand in a short period of 910 months.” said.
1 million goal
Minister Özer reminded that students have the opportunity to get vocational training in school one day a week and in real business environments on other days.
“We made a very important change in the Vocational Education Law No. 3308 on December 25, 2021 in order to strengthen our vocational training centers and meet the need for apprentices, journeymen and masters in our labor market. With this change, for the first time, vocational training centers have a very attractive mechanism for both employers and our young people who will go to the vocational training center. We are really happy to see how quickly this step we have taken, the new regulation has spread to the field. Our President had set the target of increasing the number of apprentices and journeymen in vocational training centers to 2022 million by the end of 1. Thank God, all the steps taken so far have enabled us to progress very quickly in this regard, and I believe that we will not only reach the 2022 million target by the end of 1, but we will go far beyond this target."
MESEMs will become stronger with new projects
Emphasizing that they have a new project to strengthen these centers in 2023 and to meet the other long-term needs of the labor market regarding the number of apprentices, journeymen and masters, Minister Özer said, "With the strengthening of these centers, small and medium-sized enterprises, especially apprentices, journeymen, masters, At the same time, this situation will have very important positive contributions in reducing the youth unemployment rate of our country. I believe that, on this occasion, very important improvements will be achieved in the indicator that measures the performance of the pass-through of the education and labor market, which is the indicator "neither in education nor in work", which is actively used in the performance indicators of OECD countries. made its assessment.
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