TEDAnkara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. College consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. TED Ankara College Foundation Schools Incek Campus is located in Ankara, Turkey.
History
With the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, education was one of the areas initially emphasised by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. In this framework, at Atatürk's request and with his guidance, the Turkish Education Association was founded in 1928 and led the establishment of qualified Turkish schools. The first chairman of the TED was İsmet İnönü, the second president of Turkey. The emblem of TED got its crescent from the Turkish national flag, its torch, which is the symbol of education, from the goal of association and its stars from the aim of immortalizing the respect and the kindness towards the five administrative committee members. TED Ankara College was founded in 1930 as the first school established by TED, and was the first private Turkish school established after the foundation of Republic of Turkey to instruct in English. In 1931, the primary school, in 1933, the middle school, in 1936 the high school were established. In 1963, the school's administration was handed over to TED Ankara College Foundation. In 2000, the foundation started to build a campus in İncek, Ankara. In 2003-2004 education year, they moved their establishments from Kolej, Ankara to this campus. The name Kolej, the district where TED Ankara College Foundation Schools were located, is coming from the name of the college. The emblem of the schools is coming from the emblem of the association. TED Ankara College currently has more than 5,000 students, 500 teachers, 220 employees and 26,000 alumni, including many important Turkish people, such as engineers, politicians, famous actors, artists, lawyers and businessmen. TED Ankara College Foundation High School is accredited to give IB Diploma Program by International Baccalaureate Organization - and is one of the IB Schools in Turkey.
Campus life
TED Ankara College Foundation İncek campus is a model education facility model not only in Turkey but also abroad for its student capacity and facilities. With its contemporary education site with 141,000 square meters of enclosed area and over 309,000 square meters of open area - the largest combined area among high schools in Europe,and the largest in the world in category of middle and elementary schools. This facility provides the best education environment for its students, helps the new generations to improve their imagination, creativity and makes life and learning more enjoyable. The campus is located east of Taşpınar village on Yumrubel in İncek, which is in the south part of the capital city, Ankara. The classrooms form clusters, clusters form class groups, and class groups lead to the formation of schools. In this formation all features have been planned to keep up with the pace of the contemporary education. The premises of the new campus can accommodate altogether 6,000 people. School sections consist of:
A social club with a restaurant, a café bar, recreation centers, an outdoor swimming pool and tennis courts.
College library
TED Ankara College Library is situated in the TED Ankara College Campus. The library is divided into four buildings in the campus. The primary school library is in the north building complex, the secondary school and high school libraries are in the east building complexes and there is another section in the administration building which is situated in the middle. The high school library also contains an additional research library inside. Each library has a specific level of content according to where it is located. All four libraries use Dewey Classification system and all the books except the ones in the research library are available to borrow. Library also hosts a website which the books can be found online, there are also some additional online content in the library's website.
International affiliations
ECIS: The European Council of International Schools
