NGO to help Turkish migrants access higher education

Turkey’s Maarif Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) running schools abroad, turned its attention to low university attendance among children of Turkish migrant families across the world. To boost the number of Turkish-origin students at universities in Europe and North America, the foundation is setting up “education centres”, reports the Daily Sabah.

Officials say the rate of Turkish youth from migrant families attending universities in Europe, the United States and Canada is around 3%. The foundation’s chairman Professor Birol Akgün told Anadolu Agency that Turkish expatriates, particularly in European countries, sought support from Turkey to increase the number of Turkish university students.

Akgün noted that insufficient social support and consultancy services were factors causing low attendance. “We set up new education models and in every country we want to set up one or two education centres in cooperation with other non-governmental organisations,” Akgün said. The education centres offer additional assistance to university hopefuls.
Full report on the Daily Sabah site