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PUBLIC EDUCATION CENTER

Public Education Centers are Educational Institutions that Provide Service to
Provincial and District Centers, Subdivisions and Villages for the General Purposes of Turkish
National Education and the Purpose and Functions of Non-formal Education.

Simultaneously with the Public Reading Rooms, it provided services to the public to
provide information, skills, improve behavior and guide the social, cultural and economic
development of the public through education.

Public Education Centers have been non-formal education institutions that organize
social and cultural courses and vocational and general knowledge courses in order to deliver
these services to the public.

Working Disciplines were determined with the “Regulation on Non-Formal Education
Institutions”, which was put into effect on 27 July 1979.

Objectives of Public Education Center

• To make citizens understand the meaning of Atatürk's Revolutions, to adopt the
principles of the Republic and the democratic life, to root them in the country, to develop
the feelings of free discipline, mutual understanding, love, respect and tolerance, which are
the basis of democratic life,

• Helping and Guiding the Social, Cultural and Economic Development of My
Community in Educational Ways by Equipping Citizens with Knowledge, Skills, Developing
and Advancing their Knowledge and Skills, Behavior and Values.

Public Education Centers are the Educational Institutions with the Easiest Access in
Adult Education, which organize free courses in vocational, social, social, economic, sportive
and cultural fields for citizens of all ages, with different education, income, social status and
cultural levels. .

The General Directorate of Public Education was established on 29 August 1960,
under the Ministry of National Education, in order to expand the Area of Influence of Public
Education Centers and to carry out their activities systematically throughout the country.
The General Directorate of Non-formal Education was established in 1977 under the
Ministry of National Education, based on the National Education Basic Law No.

The new General Directorate of Apprenticeship Education was established in 1978,
based on the National Education Basic Law No. 1739.
Public Education Centers continued to serve under this General Directorate together
with Vocational Training Centers Providing Apprentice Training. With the Law on the
Organizational Duties of the Ministry of National Education dated 13 December 2983 and
numbered 179, the General Directorate of Apprenticeship Education and the General
Directorate of Non-formal Education were established. Public Education Centers continued
to serve under this General Directorate.