“Regional Awareness Days” organised by the Ministry of National Education to bring together education authorities and non-governmental organisations to prevent early school leaving and absenteeism were completed with the last meeting held in Istanbul.
The meeting was attended by officials from the Provincial Directorates of Ministry of National Education (MoNE), administrators and teachers from pilot schools, mukhtars and NGO representatives from pilot provinces of Sakarya, Ağrı, Bingöl and Tekirdağ as well as Istanbul.
The participants discussed the measures taken for the prevention of early school leaving and absenteeism in the meeting, and they were informed about the interventions made within the scope of ODAP and the tools developed such as the Early Warning System.
The Regional Awareness Days were organised to achieve real societal progress in combating early school leaving and to gain stakeholders’ support in the implementation of the Early Warning System to improve school attendance.
An evaluation report will be prepared at the end of the meetings organised in three different cities, namely Ankara, Şanlıurfa and Istanbul.