Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of National Education

Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of National Education is a governmental organization in charge with the planning and coordination of all kinds of educational and training activities from pre-school, to secondary and adult education in Kocaeli Province. The Directorate is responsible with taking all required actions in the field of education to realize a real increase in the management and organizational capacity of this largest governmental body of the Kocaeli Province. As Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of National Education our aims are to raise modern generations who are loyal to Atatürk’s natıonalism, internalize Turkish Nation’s values, know their duties and responsibilities towards the Republic of Turkey; to prepare our youth and children to life and higher education in an educational environment based on reason and science which studies, researches and questions; and one of the priority target is to maximize the level of productivity of the institutions and employees in our region and our country in line with developments and changes in the frame work of Turkish National Education goals and fundamental principles. As an educational authority our Institution is a non-profit public body. Our institution working to increase the success and ensure the efficiency by focusing on understanding on "Strategic Planning" and "Total Quality Management" in every field of education, has 39 pre-school institutions, 229 special needs institutions, 281 primary schools, 235 secondary schools, 62 vocational secondary schools, 4 vocational education centres, 6 teachers’ guest houses, 12 Public Training Centres, 3 Counselling and Research Centres in its region. Literacy rate in Kocaeli is quite high and increasing every year . In the provision of education and training services, Provincial Directorate of National Education in collaboration with all stakeholders, acts with the responsibility to shape the city’s future . Being one of the industrial cities , Vocational and Technical Education and institutions are crucial to develop their own capacities. As well as being the industrial city, Kocaeli is also a science city with the institutions such as Kocaeli University, Gebze Institute of Technology and Research Centers . In our city, the school / institution number is 1150. In these schools 19.209 teachers carry out a duty and 343.804 students are dtudying at 12.716 classes. 12 Districts Educational Directorate of National Education are affiliated with Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of National Education. Under the Kocaeli Provincial Directorate of National Education, one Director of Education , 1 Head of Internal Audit, 6 Deputy Manager and 9 Branch Manager and in all Province 1982 Administrators carry out a duty.