Thousands of teachers who had been preparing for the career exams of the Ministry of National Education (MEB) for months, but could not take the exam because they could not access the exam entrance documents due to the malfunction in the MEB system, fell into a victimized situation.
Aggrieved teachers, who have been preparing for the exam for months with training videos, who have completed all the trainings completely, who have met all the application requirements and applied for the specialist teacher exam, but could not take the exam due to a mistake in the Ministry of National Education system, are waiting for the problem to be resolved.
The aggrieved teachers, who wanted an urgent make-up exam, made special statements to the Milli Gazete.
REGISTRATIONS APPROVED BUT THEY CANNOT REACH THE EXAM ENTRANCE DOCUMENT
An aggrieved teacher who made special statements to Milli Gazete summarized the situation with the following words:
"The career ladder exam conducted by the Ministry of National Education was made in the form of a 3-stage application. Application and document delivery through the MEBBIS system of the Ministry of National Education in the 1st stage. Watching and approving the videos containing the 2nd stage lecture notes. After the 2nd stage, those who completed these processes were evaluated, school, district and province approvals were made, and this process was completed. All of these transactions are available in MEBBIS records. After this process, an individual application was requested through the e-Government system with a link created by the ministry. Although thousands of teachers applied for the applications made via the link, they were not included in the system of the Ministry of National Education and the application was not accepted. Thousands of teachers could not attend the exam because they could not reach the exam entrance document. This has caused serious suffering."
IT IS ESSENTIAL TO MAKE A COMPENSATION EXAM
Stating that they are waiting for a make-up exam by the Ministry of National Education (MEB), along with thousands of colleagues, the victim teacher said, "This issue was conveyed to the Ministry of National Education before the exam, while taking the exam in the reserve halls of the aggrieved teachers could eliminate this grievance, this has not been done and the fact that the teachers are victims is still not accepted due to the link created by the Ministry of National Education. The same answer is given to all teachers who apply with a petition, even though the last link is available in the log records of the teachers. It is mandatory to conduct a make-up exam for all teachers who are victims and fulfill the conditions before the link created by the Ministry. I am sending you the certificate of our teacher, who made and registered the link application and did not receive the exam entry document despite this, without prejudice to the name of our teacher, even this clearly shows that the link gives an error."
HUNDREDS OF TEACHERS APPLIED
With the Teaching Profession Law that came into effect on February 14, 2022, the Ministry of National Education started the Teaching Career Steps application. Teachers who want to earn the title of head teacher and specialist teacher attended a series of trainings. The trainings, which started in July, were completed in September and the teachers were tested for the training they received. It was stated that the salaries of the teachers who were successful in the exam, which was held on 19 November 2022 and whose results are expected to be announced on 12 December 2022, will be increased. According to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's statements, 614 thousand 446,000 applications were made for the exam, while nearly 90 thousand teachers who had master's and doctorate degrees were exempted from the exam.