Deputy Minister of National Education Petek Aşkar received the Program Leader for Human Development at the World Bank Heba Elgazzar and accompanying delegation in order to discuss the "Safe Schooling and Distance Education Project" and strategic cooperation areas and activities planned for the future.

 

Sides focused on strategic issues of the project and planned activities in 2023 and beyond. Within this context, they exchanged views about the dissemination of digital education practices at schools especially in disadvantaged schools, development of green skills in line with climate change policies and role of digital education in the development of professional skills.

 

It was agreed that productive cooperation during the successfully completed first phase off the project will continue in the second phase and this will be an important outcome for the education system in Türkiye.

 

Director General of YEĞİTEK Ertuğrul Karalar and the World Bank Education Team Leader Husein Abdulhamid were also present at the meeting.