ISTANBUL- Daily News with wires
A new Ministry of Education program plans to bring 40,000 foreign yabancı teachers to Turkey for language courses.According göre to the plan, the Ministry of Education will assign (f.) atamak foreign teachers not only to elementary school ilkokul and high schools but also to kindergartens anaokulu.
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 their grievances sıkıntı with slogans such as, “We want to import ministers bakan, but not teachers,” and “Did you forget your own teachers waiting for assignment?”
Mahfuz Yalçınkaya, the press consultant danışman for Eğitim Bir-Sen, another Turkish education union, said his group was not sure whether the foreign teachers would bring a secret agenda gündem along with their language skills to the elementary schools and kindergartens of Turkey.
“There could be missionaries among the teachers, or they may have other goals hedef like promoting their own culture,” he added.
Ünal Akyüz, head coordinator of the projects department in the Ministry of Education, said the criticism is baseless asılsız because 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 will accompany yanında bulunmak foreign ones. They will be not allowed to be alone in the classrooms,” he said.