GÖLCÜK VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTATION

There are 826 formal and 232 non-formal, totally 1058 students, 107 teachers, 1 school principal,6
managers, 3 officers,3 assistant staffs in our school. 30 classrooms, 4 laboratories for Information
Technologies Department, 8 laborataries for Electric-electronic Technologies Department, 4 workplaces
for Marine Enginnering Management Department, 4 laboratories for Marine Transportation
Management, 6 laboratories for Ship building Department, 5 laboratories for Metal Technologies
Department, 8 laboratories Machine Technologies Department, 5 laboratories for Furniture and interior
design Technologies Department take place in our school. Each field is active as vocational distance
education high school also, our school provide vocational training for private sector as UME centre and it
provides Net proficiency training for students and traniees as CISCO Networking Academy.
Cooperation protocols are signed with Chamber of Shipping and Faculty of Maritime Studies, Kocaeli
University (KOU) for the applications in marine field, with MESS education Foundation for various
education applications and with Kocaeli Chamber of Industry, MAGNA International and FORD OTOSAN
A.Ş for in service training for teachers and students job placement subjects. We make a big contribution
to vocational and technical education in Gölcük with those signed protocols;

• Educations are provided for school managers on management and leadership
• In service educations are provided fort he teachers in their own fields
• Laboratory support for our school is also supplied
• Schoolarship is awarded for the students studying in metal departments and successful students
  in some other departments by MESS foundation
• Skills education in business and internship are enabled
• Career development and guidance service are provided
• Company employees are provided with vocational training by the school
• Common Project s are developed in school company cooperation
• Procedures and principles that intend to make AR-GE studies are included..

Our school, named as Gölcük Marine Anatolian Vocational High School before, is the only school that has
Shipbuilding Department. Gölcük shipyard linked to Gölcük Fleet Command choose a big part of its
workers from our school. 70 students in 230 that we send to the companies have their internship in the
shipyards in Gölcük area. After graduation, 30 of them also are employed in the shipyards. All graduates
are awarded with Europass showing their education outputs in the department they study. In the
Department of Marine Transportation Management ,existing in the structure of our school, Bridge
Liquided Cargo handling Simulator, electronic air Simulator, life saving appliances platform, fire training
Simulator exist. Moreover , our institution is the only school that is able to supply 32 different theoratical
and practical education and certificate(like; life saving appliances, personal survival techniques at sea,
ınternational ship and port security, advanced fire training , engine resources management, engine watch
keeping certificate, elementary first aid, personal safety and social responsibility, automatic radar plotting
aid certificate(ARPA) deck watch keeping certificate, bridge resources management Electronic chart
displaying information system –ECDIS- trainings) in the departments of marine engineering and
management and department of marine transportation management.Many firms send their employees
from our region or outside to those trinings, therefore; our school’s connections and co operations with
the companies get stronger. Our school came as the first in our region with the Project called’ mind

control’ which controls tiresome and won the right to send one teacher and three students to CERN
Switzerland. With the Project called ‘Artificial Intelligence’, our school was awarded with certificate of
high achievement by Minister of Communication Technologies, Fikri Işık during the robotics and coding
week. Our school provides many employees especially for the metal sector. There are lots of
international companies in our region carry on business in the shipyards and metal industry. These
companies have co operations with many international firms around the world and they demand students
from our school who will be able to work in multi cultural setings. Our instutuion direct our students who
are good with English and who have had the chance of having internship abroad to those firms. Our
school train students under the title of CISCO in information Technologies sector and graduate a part of
our students with this certificate. Our school also aim to educate students and teachers abroad with this
certificate to confirm that we give education about network administration in the international standarts.
What is more, an application is made for Microsoft imagine academy which will provide us to certificate a
worldwide certificate.
Our school will become an attractive centre fort he foreign students around the world in our strategic
plan of internationalization. Our school is labelled with  2019 Erasmus + Vocational Education Student and
Personal Mobility Acreditation certificate(VET Mobility Charter)  by Turkish National Agency which means
we have proved that we meet the general standarts of quality in EU Education and Youth programmes.
Thanks to  Acreditation, we are entitled to send our students to abroad to have internship in foreign
firms. We look for intership programmes that our students would attend.
Our school students; within the scope of the Accreditation Certificate it has acquired, aims to have
internship periods between 1-6 months on Information communication Technologies, Electric-electronics
Technologies, Machine Technologies, Furniture and interior design Technologies, Metal Technologies and
also ship building and maritinme fields which ships carrying the flags of the member states of the
European Union and on the flagged ships owned by the agencies in the EU countries or in other countries.
As our school is the only one that has a maritime field in acreditation programme, Turkish NAtional
Agency supports our institution without any budget restrictions for the planned internship studies on
maritime fields.

Responsibilities of Our School:
 The election of the students: Students who will participate in the internship programme will go through
a selection process. At this stage, students will be subjected to foreign language knowledge , field
proficiency and sociocultural level measurements. After the interviews to be held, our students who
have the competence to represent our institution and our country will be entitled to participate in the
international mobility.
• It is the documentation required for the preparation of students’ permission procedures and other legal
procedures.
• Monitoring of students: our students will be monitored closely by both guide counselors and central
monitoring commission in real and digital platforms in order to ensure their safety during the internship
period.

• It is the accommodation of our students (if the student is doing his internship on land, at the shipyard or
in the agency) and the placement of the student.
• Eliminating the transportation needs of our students: Flight tickets and local transportation needs in
their cities will be met by our institution.
• Insurance procedures: Travel and health insurance of our students, all social insurance and financial
liability insurance to be made during the internship period will be covered by our institution.
• Project preparations: If a project is required during the internship, all the documents required to
prepare, edit and evaluate the project will be provided by our institution.
• Legal Responsibility: A learning agreement will be signed with all beneficiaries (parents under the age of
18) indicating their duties and responsibilities in the project (participation in preparatory and
dissemination activities, full participation in all activities during mobility, representation of the country,
etc.).

Responsibilities of Foreign Partners:

• Work placement: The placement of the student in the work / internship is the provision of all training
and support needed during the internship.
• Responsible Personnel: Designate a staff member responsible for monitoring the trainees and trainers,
if any. The designated personnel will carry out the follow-up of the student and monitoring and
communication with our institution during the internship period.
• Legal Responsibility: A Memorandum of Understanding will be prepared in which the internship
program and all logistical issues take place, quality commitments are determined and mutual agreements
are reached.
• Certification: A document indicating the quality and duration of the internship is given to the students
who will be prepared jointly with our institution at the end of the internship.
 Reporting: Preparation of a report evaluating the professional skills of the trainee