Dürüst Meets With University Rectors
North Cyprus National Education Youth and Sport Minister Kemal Dürüst Wednesday received six separate University Rectors and their respective delegations.
The meeting was held in the morning, and the Eastern Mediterranean University Rector Abdullah Öztoprak, the Lefke European University Assistant Rector Akın Cellatoğlu, the Cyprus International University Rector Mehmet Ali Yükselen, the near East University Assistant Rector Şenol Bektaş, the Girne American University Rector Yıldırım Ören, the Middle East Technical Universiry Cyprus Campus Rector Turgut Tümer and their respective delegates attended the meeting.
The national Education, Youth ans Sports Minister Hamza Ersan Saner made a short statement prior to the commencement of the meeting which was closed to the press, where he said that they were to discuss the “concerns, problems and ways forward with University officials”.
Mr. Saner said: “We will in particular be talking about ways to attract more students to our Universities in North Cyprus, who not only significantly contribute to our ecenomy, they also offer good educational opportunities for students”.
“However, there has not been a substantial amount of students that have come to our Universities this year. We will talk about what sort of action can be taken to increase the number of students for the next academic year. We have more education opportunities when compared to Greek Cypriot side.” Saner said.
Mr Dürüst said that after the meeting and having gauged the thoughts and ideas of the rectors, they will as the Ministry proceed on a set of initiatives on the matter.
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