The Preference Support Program, organized by the Student First Platform in cooperation with Bahçelievler Municipality and which will reach young people in many different cities, started in Istanbul with the participation of 500 university candidates.  

 

Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin was the guest of the program, where experts in their fields, including ministers, bureaucrats and sector representatives, shared their experiences with young people, as well as providing one-to-one preference guidance to students who will make a university preference.

 

Stating that seeing their inner world and abilities well and making choices accordingly are the things that will most benefit the students during the selection process, Minister Tekin warned that otherwise, they will be doing a job they do not desire for the rest of their lives.

 

Stating that he, as a parent, respects the preferences of his children, Tekin wished the students to be admitted to the school they want.

 

Asking students not to limit themselves to the lectures given by the academics at the universities after they graduated from the university, Minister Tekin emphasized that the academics will only provide guidance for a part of the students' life. Minister said that the remaining fifty percent, sixty percent and seventy-five percent of students' lives will be shaped by the activities inside or outside the university campus. Minister Tekin, asked students to be present in all environments that will protect this country, fight for this country, and produce values and ideas for this country, which enable students to better develop themselves, so that the elders will  entrust this country to them with a light heart.

 

After his speech, Minister Tekin answered the questions of the students one by one and chatted with them.

 

At the end of the program, Minister Tekin had a photo taken with the founder of the Student First platform, the Deputy of İstanbul Rümeysa Kadak and the students.