MÜSİAD President Mahmut Asmalı came together with students at the report card ceremony held at the Üsküdar Bağlarbaşı Retail Marketing Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School. Emphasizing the importance of vocational and technical education, President Asmalı used the following words: "We want our young people to develop themselves through different vocational and technical training programmes and to provide added value to the economy."
Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MÜSİAD) President Mahmut Asmalı came together with students at the report card ceremony held at the İstanbul Üsküdar Bağlarbaşı Retail Marketing Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, which MÜSİAD has designated as a project school in order to train a qualified workforce in the field of vocational and technical education.
At the ceremony, attended by Üsküdar Mayor Hilmi Türkmen, Üsküdar District Director of National Education Sinan Aydın, MÜSİAD Vice Presidents Gökhan Yetkin and Muhammet Ali Özeken, MÜSİAD Retail and E-Commerce Sector Board Chairman Ali Gökhan Er, Bağlarbaşı Marketing and Retail Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School Principal İbrahim Gürle, MÜSİAD members and parents, developments in the field of education were evaluated.
Emphasizing the importance of vocational and technical education in his speech at the ceremony, President Asmalı stated that MÜSİAD wants to be a pioneer in the high-quality education Türkiye needs. While expressing that they attach importance to the training of a qualified workforce, President Asmalı said that, as the business world, a workforce profile with high vocational skills is seen not as an intermediate employee but as a sought-after employee.
Adding to his remarks that as MÜSİAD they want young people to develop themselves through different vocational and technical training programmes and to provide added value to the economy, MÜSİAD President Asmalı said: "In order to encourage this process, we are conducting a comprehensive study that will identify the need for vocational and technical training in different sectors."
"Thematic high schools have brought a new breath to vocational education"
Underlining that the competencies needed in different occupational groups in a changing world have taken on a different direction together with technology, President Asmalı commented: "Alongside the necessity of an education system integrated with advanced technology applications, the increasing need for a quality workforce has made vocational and technical education indispensable today. The brand schools created within the framework of the 'Thematic Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools' project implemented by the İstanbul Provincial Directorate of National Education in recent years have brought a new breath to vocational education. As MÜSİAD, it is a great honour to lead this initiative. Because we are aware of the potential our young people represent. Our greatest goal is to train qualified, advanced, expert minds in every field, not only in a single sector or a particular area. We believe in our young people, the assurance of our tomorrow, and we trust in their energy. The creation of dozens of thematic high schools through this project, which is spreading across Türkiye, will add strength to vocational education."
"The doors of Young MÜSİAD are wide open to our young people"
Pointing out that MÜSİAD trains the business people and entrepreneurs of the future in all four corners of Türkiye through its youth structures, President Asmalı stated that the MÜSİAD family is becoming even stronger with its young members.
President Asmalı continued his speech as follows:
"MÜSİAD is a school, a family. Our brothers and sisters who joined our youth structures in previous terms, gained knowledge in different sectors, developed themselves and grew stronger with the experience they acquired here are today carrying out work that leaves a mark on the world. My young brothers and sisters who yesterday took part enthusiastically under this roof today serve actively on our MÜSİAD board of directors and represent not only MÜSİAD but our country at events such as the International Business Forum, MÜSİAD Visionary, the International Young Businessmen Congress and MÜSİAD EXPO. These brothers and sisters of ours also come together around the ideal of a producing and strong Türkiye at different organizations abroad. This enthusiasm gives strength to us as well. Today's Young MÜSİAD entrepreneur soldiers are the most important factor that will shape tomorrow's business world. For this reason, the doors of both our MÜSİAD and our Young MÜSİAD are wide open to our young people."
The project aims to cultivate the values that are necessary and sought after by the business world
The Üsküdar Bağlarbaşı Retail Marketing Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School, which has been revised through the practice brought to life within the scope of the "Thematic Vocational and Technical Anatolian High Schools" project carried out in cooperation between MÜSİAD and the İstanbul Provincial Directorate of National Education, aims to support the business world by training a sector-based qualified workforce. Through the project, it is intended that MÜSİAD assume a pioneering role in the high-quality education Türkiye needs, that the values necessary and sought after by the business world be cultivated, that an education service of a quality that can be an alternative to university education be offered, that educational conditions always be positioned at the highest level, and that MÜSİAD serve as an example and an inspiration to other civil society organizations and various institutions.
