Tev Domestic Scholarships
TEV offers domestic scholarships to those successful students of technical and industrial vocational high schools, universities, masters and doctorate programs who are devoted to Ataturk’s Principles and Reforms and are in need of financial support. Bursars are selected through scholarship commission formed by students’ own educational institutions.
While 119 students availed themselves to TEV scholarships in the year of its establishment, this number has increased to 150.136 in 40 years.
In addition to the students selected by educational institutions, those students who are disabled or grew up in an orphanage and qualified to start higher education, and studying children of disaster victim families also make use of TEV scholarship contingencies every year.
In this context, 4041 students were granted scholarships in relation to the 17 August and 12 November 1999 Marmara Earthquakes, 1000 students for 3 February 2002 Afyon Earthquake, and 100 earthquake victim students for 1 May 2003 Bingol Earthquake.
In accordance with the information obtained from educational institutions every year, scholarships of successful students will continue until the end of their education. Scholarships of those students who have failed or have been detected to receive scholarships or loans from other organizations will be stopped.
In addition to offering scholarships, TEV presents the “Merits Awards” to those bursars who complete their education at success levels defined in the Domestic Scholarship and Awards Regulation in order to promote success.
Being aware of the importance of education for a contemporary Turkey, TEV attaches special importance to teacher training faculties in allocating scholarship contingencies.
Scholarships are paid for 9 months from October to June. Monthly scholarship amounts are as follows:
| Primary-Secondary Education |
80.-YTL |
100.-YTL |
| University |
200.-YTL |
240.-YT |
| Master |
350.-YTL |
400.-YTL |
Tev Domestic Scholarship Application And Selection:
1. TEV communicates to educational institutions its scholarship contingencies and requirements at the beginning of each educational year,
2. Educational institutions announce TEV scholarships to students during October.
3. Students who want to avail themselves to scholarship must, between 1-31 October, fill an online form at TEV website (www.tev.org.tr), will print and submit the same to the relevant educational institution along with other required documents.
4. Schools form a scholarship commission out of faculty members and the TEV representative, as many real and substitute candidates as the contingencies will be selected out of the applicants, and communicated to the Foundation in a report.
5. Following the final review by TEV General Directorate, the finalized list of qualifying bursars will be communicated thereabout, and scholarships will become effective.
Qualifications Sought in Candidates:
1. Devotion to Ataturk’s principles and Reforms.
2. Restricted financial resources.
3. Being successful;
a. For those students who are new in education: having entered one’s department within the top 50% depending on the order of school entry points.
b. For students at intermediary grades: having no failed classed from previous years or having a general success average of at least 2,5 (at least 60 at universities with the 100-points education system). (Students with qualifying average points will not be eligible to apply if they have failed from more than 3 classes.)
TEV’s domestic scholarships are normally grants, but TEV bursars regard it as a moral and conscientious responsibility to provide a scholarship through TEV to another young Turkish person like himself/herself after he/she graduates and finds an employment, or to make others donate to TEV.
Social Activities:
In addition to providing financial support to its bursars, TEV also organizes social activities in order to ensure their social development. TEV assists the bursars in relation to the following;
• Finding a company for internship
• Organizing technical trips and trips for fun
• Organizing free English courses (*)
• Providing guidance and counseling services to bursars through series of meetings
• Providing free invitations to the movies, theater, concerts and exhibitions.
• Organizing forest planting campaigns
(*) Our English Course: Organized at the Turkish-American University Students Society in Osmanbey-Istanbul, TEV bursars can attend these courses free of charge. With 2- or 3-day attendance every week, weekend courses can be opened in case of high demand. Our bursars, whose education is in progress, can make use of these courses, whereby the level is assigned through a proficiency assessment test. Any bursars interested in attending these courses are required to file an application with the TEV General Directorate, Directorate of Education.