Higher Education Council President Erol Özvar made a new statement about the decision to continue the 2022-2023 academic year spring semester with distance education, which has been discussed since the day it was announced.
President Recep Tayyip ErdoganIn the statement made last week, KYK dormitories were given to earthquake victims. as a guest house announced that education in universities will continue with distance education until the end of this term.
After this decision, the Council of Higher Education also shared an official statement and stated that distance education was ‘appropriate’. Recently made a new statement Erol Özvar, President of YÖKmade new statements on the subject.
Chairman of the Council of Higher Education Erol Özvar: Universities will continue with distance education in the spring term, and with hybrid education as of April.
According to the statements of YÖK President Özvar, 15 percent of all formal students in Turkey were residing or studying in the earthquake zone. There are no campus buildings destroyed in the universities in the earthquake area, but there are some buildings that are heavily damaged. The highlights from Özvar’s statements are as follows:
- 2022-23 academic year spring term, February 20, 2023 As of today, it will start with ‘distance education’. The decisions taken were reviewed as of the beginning of April, and face-to-face education was introduced in addition to distance education. hybrid education may also be applied. In applied programs, students will continue their education face to face.
- If the residents of the provinces affected by the earthquake or their first-degree relatives live in these provinces, upon request, the residence of their first-degree relative or the universities in the provinces where they live. special student in equivalent department they can be. In addition, students in the earthquake zone will be able to freeze their registration in the spring semester if they request, and this will be deducted from the maximum education period.
- Universities in the earthquake region were matched with universities outside the region to collaborate
Details are coming…
The first official statement of YÖK on the subject was as follows:
“Due to the effects of the Kahramanmaraş-centered Earthquake disaster across the country, it was decided by the Council of Higher Education that the spring semester of the 2022-2023 academic year should be completed through distance education. Details on distance education, measures to be taken in this context, medicine, dentistry Health programs such as internship and workplace training and similar issues will be evaluated separately and shared with the public in the coming days.“