TED Ankara College Foundation Schools

TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. College consists of kindergarten, elementary, junior high and high schools. TED Ankara College Foundation Schools Incek Campus is located in Ankara, Turkey.

History

With the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, education was one of the areas initially emphasised by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In this framework, at Atatürk's request and with his guidance, the Turkish Education Association (TED - Türk Eğitim Derneği) was founded in 1928 and lead the establishment of qualified Turkish schools.

The first chairman of the TED was İsmet İnönü, the second president of Turkey. The emblem of TED got its crescent from the Turkish national flag, its torch, which is the symbol of education, from the goal of association and its stars from the aim of immortalizing the respect and the kindness towards the five administrative committee members.

TED Ankara College was founded in 1930 as the first school established by TED, and was the first private Turkish school established after the foundation of Republic of Turkey to instruct in English (The first private Turkish school to instruct in English is FMV Işık Lisesi, founded in the Ottoman era). In 1931, the primary school, in 1933, the middle school, in 1936 the high school were established. In 1963, the school's administration was handed over to TED Ankara College Foundation. In 2000, the foundation started to build a campus in İncek, Ankara. In 2003-2004 education year, they moved their establishments from Kolej, Ankara to this campus. The name "Kolej", the district where TED Ankara College Foundation Schools were located, is coming from the name of the college. The emblem of the schools are coming from the emblem of the association.

TED Ankara College currently has more than 5,000 students, 500 teachers, 220 employees and 26,000 alumni, including many important Turkish people, such as politicians, famous actors, artists, lawyers and businessmen.

TED Ankara College Foundation High School is accredited to give IB Diploma Program by International Baccalaureate Organization - (IBO) and is one of the IB Schools in Turkey.

Campus Life

TED Ankara College Foundation İncek Campus [ [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=39%C2%B049%2733.41%22N,+32%C2%B046%2743.85%22E&ie=UTF8&ll=39.841232,32.818909&spn=0.054172,0.171661&t=k&om=1 "Location of the campus at Google Maps"] ] is a model education facility model not only in Turkey but also abroad for its student capacity and facilities. With its contemporary education site with 141,000 square meters of enclosed area and over 309,000 square meters of open area - the largest combined area among high schools in Europe, this facility provides the best education environment for its students, helps the new generations to improve their imagination, creativity and makes life and learning more enjoyable.

The Campus is located east of Taspınar village on Yumrubel in İncek, which is in the south part of the capital city, Ankara.

The classrooms form clusters, clusters form class groups, and class groups lead to the formation of schools. In this formation all features have been planned to keep up with the pace of the contemporary education. The premises of the new campus can accommodate altogether 6,000 people. School sections consist of:

* Kindergarten, with a capacity of 450 students
* Primary school for grades 1-5 with a capacity of 2,050 students
* Primary school for grades 6-8 with a capacity of 1,800 students
* High school with a capacity of 1,920 students including 120 prep-grade students.

The campus plans include many facilities such as:

* A sports hall with a capacity of 3,000 people,
* 2 halls for training, Indoor and outdoor swimming pools,
* A sports center consisting of squash, dance, gymnastics halls, fitness center and a sauna bath,
* A shopping center
* An art center with 9 studios for various purposes
* A science center for permanent and periodical scientific experiments
* A spacious theatre-auditorium for 800 people
* A culture and congress center
* A catering center
* College museum
* A social club with a restaurant, a café bar, recreation centers, an outdoor swimming pool and tennis courts

Life at campus become perfect with science, art, * [http://library.tedankara.k12.tr library.] ,culture and sport activities which are the basic elements of contemporary education.

Notable alumni

in alphabetical order of family names
* Filiz Akın - Actress
* Melis Arslan - Engineer
* Ali Babacan (1967) - Politician, former Minister of Economics, Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Nur Batur - Journalist
* Mithat Bereket (1966) - Journalist
* Hüsamettin Cindoruk - Politician, former Speaker of the Parliament of Turkey
* Emin Çölaşan - Journalist
* Ali Doğramacı - Rector, Bilkent University
* Can Dündar - Author, Journalist
* Faruk Gül - Chair of the Department of Economics, Princeton University
* Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu (1955) - President, Union of Chambers and Commercial Exchanges of Turkey
* Erman Ilıcak - Chairman of Rönesans Construction
* Cenk Koray - Talk show host
* Zülfü Livaneli - Musician
* Reha Muhtar - Anchorman
* Güler Sabancı (1955)- Chairwoman of Sabancı Holding
* Oktay Sinanoğlu - Professor of Physics
* Kartal Tibet - Actor
* Serdar Turgut - Journalist
* Murat Vargı - Founder, Turkcell

See also

* List of high schools in Turkey
* ÖSS

References

External links

* [http://www.ted.org.tr Türk Eğitim Derneği - Turkish Education Association]
* [http://www.tedankara.k12.tr TED Ankara College Website]
* [http://www.ibo.org International Baccalaureate Organization]