Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı 40 000 İngilizce Öğretmeni İşe Alıyor
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The Ministry of Education Hires 40 000 English Teachers
03/30/2011 15:04:00
ISTANBUL- Daily News with wires
A new Ministry of Education program plans to bring 40,000foreignteachers to Turkey for language courses.Accordingto the plan, the Ministry of Education willassignforeign teachers not only toelementary schooland high schools but also tokindergartens.
Some non-governmental organizations have already found fault with the new education program, criticizing government spending to bring in foreign teachers while 400,000 Turkish teachers are waiting for assignments.
Eğitim-Sen held a protest and members voiced theirgrievanceswith slogans such as, “We want to importministers, but not teachers,” and “Did you forget your own teachers waiting for assignment?”
Mahfuz Yalçınkaya, the pressconsultantfor Eğitim Bir-Sen, another Turkish education union, said his group was not sure whether the foreign teachers would bring a secretagendaalong with their language skills to the elementary schools and kindergartens of Turkey.
“There could be missionaries among the teachers, or they may have othergoalslike promoting their own culture,” he added.
Ünal Akyüz, head coordinator of the projects department in the Ministry of Education, said the criticism isbaselessbecause the plan will help the education system in Turkey.
The project will start in the beginning of next academic year, he told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review. “The Turkish teachers willaccompanyforeign ones. They will be not allowed to be alone in the classrooms,” he said.
kutlukiz
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04/07/2011 20:46:31
We need native speakers around us.
Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı 40 000 İngilizce Öğretmeni İşe Alıyor - The Ministry of Education Hires 40 000 English Teachers
ISTANBUL- Daily News with wires
A new Ministry of Education program plans to bring 40,000foreignteachers to Turkey for language courses.Accordingto the plan, the Ministry of Education willassignforeign teachers not only toelementary schooland high schools but also tokindergartens.
Some non-governmental organizations have already found fault with the new education program, criticizing government spending to bring in foreign teachers while 400,000 Turkish teachers are waiting for assignments.
Eğitim-Sen held a protest and members voiced theirgrievanceswith slogans such as, “We want to importministers, but not teachers,” and “Did you forget your own teachers waiting for assignment?”
Mahfuz Yalçınkaya, the pressconsultantfor Eğitim Bir-Sen, another Turkish education union, said his group was not sure whether the foreign teachers would bring a secretagendaalong with their language skills to the elementary schools and kindergartens of Turkey.
“There could be missionaries among the teachers, or they may have othergoalslike promoting their own culture,” he added.
Ünal Akyüz, head coordinator of the projects department in the Ministry of Education, said the criticism isbaselessbecause the plan will help the education system in Turkey.
The project will start in the beginning of next academic year, he told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review. “The Turkish teachers willaccompanyforeign ones. They will be not allowed to be alone in the classrooms,” he said.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=some-40000-foreign-teachers-to-be-assigned-2011-03-27
What are you thinking about this project? Will it be useful for the students or not?