Taner Akcan Apprenticeship and Adult Education Center
Taner Akcan Apprenticeship and Adult Education Center was opened in 2010 as an EU and KTEZO project with the slogan of "on-the-job training" in cooperation with KTEZO and the Ministry of Education. It is the result of the vocational education reform efforts carried out in our country during the period of Taner Akcan, who was the late Ministry of Education Vocational Technical Education Department Officer and later became KTEZO General Secretary, with the technical support of the Turkish Republic and the EU. It is an education model prepared with the aim of eliminating the technical staff shortage needed in the country. The school, where students received theoretical and practical training in one day at school and 5 days in the workplace, opened in 2010 and became popular in a very short time and faced an accumulation above its capacity. In order to make up for this deficiency, in 2017, in cooperation with various institutions, our Chamber managed to establish a new modern school with 5 workshops, a conference hall for 150 people (it is rented for meetings and also provides catering support), and a capacity to train 1500 people when it provides full-time service. Our school had its first graduates in 2013. Our school, which gave its seventh term graduates, still provides apprenticeship training in 90 occupational fields and adult education in 8 fields. In addition to the teachers of Ministry of Education and the teachers employed by our Chamber, our members in Master Instructor positions also contribute to the training within the context of their professions. Our school is still working on opening new departments, equipping its workshops more comprehensively and opening branches in other districts in cooperation with Ministry of Education. Our students achieve 95% success in the exams (Ministry of Education Exams) given at the end of apprenticeship education and adult mastership and journeyman education. Therefore, the “on-the-job training” model has proven to be more successful than other vocational training models.