The first Summer School of inGenious - the European Coordinating Body in Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) Education will be hosted by Sabancı University in Istanbul

The first summer school of ingenious will take place in Istanbul in partnership with Sabancı University and the participation of hundreds of teachers from all over Europe.  The event will be held at the Larespark Hotel between 24 and 26 August 2012 with new and improved teaching strategies on science education and career development for the youth.

Dr. Sondan Durukanoglu Feyiz, Vice President of Sabanci University, and Prof. Derek Bell will welcome hundreds of teachers arriving in Istanbul from all over Europe for the first Summer School for inGenious - the European Coordinating Body in Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) Education pilot schools: a 3-day event to exchange and advance in partnerships new teaching strategies to engage young people in science education and careers.  STEM’s efforts are led by European Schoolnet, a network of the ministries of education in Europe and in other countries in the region.

The Summer school to be held in Turkey this year will bring teachers from pilot schools in Europe together to exchange results with their colleagues, present their views and have their say to industry and education stakeholders. The event will provide a unique opportunity not only for training and sharing best practice, but also strengthening relationships between educators and industry professionals.

A roundtable with representatives from Ministries of Education (Turkey, Portugal, Slovakia) and Industry leaders (Intel, Shell, and Smart Technologies, among the others) will conclude the event on Sunday 26 August.

inGenious has three main activities: research, testing and web.  The research branch includes analysis of gaps, obstacles and main benefits from the collaboration between schools and industry, and the identification of best partnerships between school and business worlds across Europe, to be promoted and scaled up at EU level.  The testing branch includes the coordination of pilot schools across 19 countries to test and enhance activities, materials and approaches to STEM education, while the web branch involves online portal and community of teachers with resources available to all interested schools and companies.

Number of schools from Turkey increases
Pilot schools from 19 countries, including four schools from Turkey (Enka Technical High School, Kocaeli; Enka Schools, Istanbul; SEV Elementary School, Izmir; and Sanko School in Gaziantep), have been identified to participate in the first year (2011/2012) of experimentation under the inGenious project.  During the last academic year, “pilot teachers” met online and tested new forms of collaboration with industry in their class - hands-on lessons and experiments in class, meetings with experts and  introduction of information communication technologies - bringing companies closer to school and helping pupils think beyond their classroom and about future careers.  Turkish schools participation in the project is getting stronger: seven schools from Turkey will join the second round of pilot schools starting in September 2012 for the new school year.

Exam result code explanations are as follows:

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have received the required grade or above in the September 17th ELAE and who have gained the right to start their faculty studies as Fall (regular) Freshman in the 2012-2013 Fall Semester.

UL (Unsatisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have not been able to obtain the required grade in the ELAE.*

NA (Non-attendance): indicates students who did not attend the exam and is equivalent to a “UL” grade*.

Grade bands are as below:

Postgraduate candidates who have taken the September 17th ELAE will be informed of their results by their faculties.

PLEASE CLICK TO SEE YOUR RESULT.

In accordance with the change in the Instruction Letter of the Higher Education Council dated 04.12.2008 regarding Foreign Language Education and Foreign Language Medium Education, sstudents who have received a UL from the 2012 September ELAE and who have either successfully completed Upper Intermediate level (ENG 003) during the 2011-2012 Summer School or have successfully completed Upper Intermediate level (ENG 003) during previous semesters may either take leave for a semester or continue at Upper Intermediate level (ENG 003) under the condition that they pass the course. In both instances, either for leave or to continue at Upper Intermediate level, students need to give in a petition addressed to The Directorate of the School of Languages by 5pm on September 20^th 2012. Petitions may be faxed to 0216 483 9140 as long as the original petition is later handed in.

Petitions to continue at Upper Intermediate (ENG 003) at the students own request will be evaluated after 5pm on September 20th 2012. The Directorate of the School of Languages will start announcing the outcome of the petitions to the students concerned from Friday, September 14^th onwards.

We wish you success in your studies,

The School of Languages Directorate

To the attention of students who will take the 14 September 2012 ELAE Stage 1,

Information about results will not be given out over the telephone to avoid any misunderstandings.

ELAE results are announced as letters of the alphabet As stated in our regulations, no results are released as numeric values. Please click to see your result.

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE) : This indicates those students who were successful in the 14^th September English Assessment Exam  (Stage 1) and who have the right to take the English Assessment Exam  (Stage 2) on September 17th.

Please click to see exam hall details for ELAE stage II on September 17th.

UL (Unsatisfactory in the ELAE): This indicates those students who were unsuccessful in the 14^th Semptember English Assessment Exam. Those who receive an unsatisfactory grade from the English Assessment Exam will be placed in the 2012-2013 Foundation Development Year, Fall Semester at either Intermediate or Basic level.

2012-2013 Academic Year Fall Term-Foundation Development Year Classes will start on Monday, 24thSeptember 2012. The student class lists and class schedules will be posted on the School of Languages Directorate’s notice boards on Friday, 21st September 2012 at 3.00 pm

NA (Non-Attendance): Students who do not take the ELAE “NA” grade will be evaluated as an “UL” grade.

Important Reminder:

For the identification check to be done in time, we ask that students who will take the exam be at the exam hall half an hour before the exam starts and that they bring some official identification which includes their photograph (such as a passport, identification card, driver’s license) with them. Students should also make sure that they bring a pencil, eraser and any other necessary pieces of equipment with them.

There is no make-up for the ELAE.

We wish you every success in the exam.

School of Languages

Selected globally as one of the three students to win a global civics competition (by United Nations and the Open Society Institute) is FASS economics BA student Sevgi Şairoğlu.

Sevgi will fly to New York and Washington DC to meet with the board of the Brookings Institute and Ban Ki-Moon.

According to the report prepared by METU Informatics Institute URAP (University Ranking by Academic Performance) Laboratories summarizing the status of world class Turkish universities as of June 2012, Sabancı University has been one of the Turkish Universities listed among top 500 universities in at least one of the 8 ranking systems.

10 universities from Turkey are listed in the top 500; and along with Sabancı University, the only foundation university from Istanbul, Universities of Istanbul, Ankara, METU, Hacettepe, Gazi, Ege, Bilkent, ITU and Boğaziçi are also enlisted. Ranking among these universities have been done according to their number of appearance in top 500.
 
University Ranking Systems

There are 8 ranking systems to rank the universities worldwide. These ranking systems are ARWU, TIMES, WEBOMETRICS, HEEACT, LEIDEN, SCIMAGO, QS and URAP. QC (Quacquarelli Symonds), where Sabancı University is listed among top 500 universities, is considered as one of the most reliable ranking systems. Established in 1990, QS continues its innovative approach in ranking and evaluation of higher education institutions worldwide as a reliable and independent ranking system since 2004.
QS identifies the top 700 universities worldwide through academic reputability obtained from surveys criteria (40%) and employer review criteria (10%), number of references per faculty criteria (20%), rate of faculty – student criteria (20%), rate of foreign students criteria (5%) and rate of foreign faculty criteria (5%). According to the evaluation made by QS with respect to Sabancı University, our university has been referred to as a young university with high research focus.

We are very proud to share that our recent VACD MA alumni Sinan Büyükbaş's 3D typographic artwork "Kandinsky Type" was selected by the behance.net team to be featured on the home page of their famous design portal.

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Dr Deniz Kurtoğlu Eken, Director of School of Languages of our University, has been invited as a plenary speaker to IATEFL UK Annual Conference, most prestigious conference in the field of ELT, organized annually by the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL), which was established in 1967 and has around 4000 members. The upcoming conference will be held in Liverpool on April 8-12, 2013. 

Dr Kurtoğlu Eken will be the second Turkish educationist to represent Turkey at IATEFL UK Annual Conference as a plenary speaker in the 45 years since its establishment.
www.iatefl.org/liverpool-2013/liverpool-2013

Among works of Dr Kurtoğlu Esen are qualitative research, teacher and trainer training and development, classroom observation and feedback, school effectiveness and teacher motivation. Please click on the following link for more information on her other professional work, presentations and publications.

http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/kurtoglueken/