Education in 4 provinces severely affected by final month’s earthquakes that ravaged southeastern Türkiye and northern components of Syria will steadily begin from March 27, Education Minister Mahmut Özer introduced on Tuesday.
Minister Özer, who attended a closed-door coordination assembly held on the Provincial Disaster and Emergency Management (AFAD) Center in Hatay, informed reporters that schooling in some districts of Kahramanmaraş, Malatya, Adıyaman and Hatay is ready to renew as of subsequent Monday.
Noting that the ministry categorised cities affected by the earthquake into three classes, Özer stated schooling already resumed in six cities categorised within the first and second classes as of March 1 and March 13, respectively.
“After extensive consultations with our Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, Interior Ministry, governors, district governors, lawmakers, district education directors and district education directorates, we decided to gradually resume education in four provinces listed in the third category. Education will start in a gradual manner as it did in six provinces, including Kahramanmaraş, Adıyaman, Malatya and Hatay, in safe districts and school compounds,” Özer stated.
“If mandatory, we’ll handle the processes with double session faculties and cell schooling,” he added, noting that on the identical time, efforts have been underway for the continuation of youngsters’s educational classes. The minister stated that schooling in 1,793 tents, containers and different momentary shelters is ongoing within the earthquake-hit area.
More than 1.3 million college students in Türkiye’s quake-ravaged provinces of Gaziantep, Adana and Osmaniye returned to their school rooms on March 13, over a month after a pair of devastating earthquakes left no less than 50,000 individuals lifeless.
Meanwhile, in keeping with Ministry of Education (MEB) knowledge, greater than 240,000 college students from the earthquake-hit zone have been transferred and reintegrated into academic establishments in different provinces throughout Türkiye.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
