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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

commissions established within the provincial national education directorates and, if
approved, they support the efforts in the centers mentioned above by working under the
supervision of the training coordinator.

As of August 2017, there were a total of 19,189 volunteer teachers in TTCs, of whom
13,178 are Syrians and 5,959 are Turkish., UNICEF provides incentive pay for volunteer
teachers working in TTCs in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education.
UNICEF used to pay 600 TL for volunteer teachers in the camps and 900 TL for
volunteer teachers working outside the camps, but these rates were raised to 1,300 TL
as of January 2017.

The follow-up on Syrian students attending public schools affiliated with the Ministry
of National Education is carried out through the e-school system, while follow-up on
students being educated in TTCs are carried out in the Foreign Student Information
System (YÖBİS). In a MoNE brief dated 23 October 2017, the number of school-
aged children was 976,200, according to DGMM data for November 2017. According
YÖBİS records dated 11 October 2017, during the 2017-2018 academic year there
were a total of 618,948 children being educated: 267,813 of them were being educated
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in 338 TTCs, 342,571 in 14,742 public schools, and 8,564 in open schools. It appears
that that 63% of school-aged Syrian children are being schooled while the remaining
37% are out of the education system.

On the other hand, as can be seen from the relevant data, 43% of the 618,948 students
enrolled between the 1st and the 12th grades and between the ages of 6-17 comprise
children who attend TTCs and are educated according to the revised Syrian curriculum
in the Arabic language. The number of children attending Turkish public schools and
being educated according to the education curriculum of the Ministry of Education of
Türkiye in the Turkish language is 351,135; this rate is 57% of the children that attend
school.

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MoNE (accessed: 8 February 2018); available from https://hbogm.meb.gov.tr/meb_iys_
dosyalar/2017_10/23112120_YNTERNET_YLTENY_23-10-2017.pdf.

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