With its scientific nature and awareness in community services, Eastern Mediterranean University Education Faculty maintains its pioneering place in the field of education within TRNC. The faculty brings up qualified educators through 11 teacher education programs offered by Computer and Instructional Technologies Education, Educational Sciences, Fine Arts Education, Elementary School Teacher Education, Middle School Subjects Education, Turkish Teaching and English Language Teaching Departments.
The high quality education offered by the Education Faculty which has set its goals towards academic excellence, intellectual independence, devotion in services, trust and honesty, brings up graduates who possess information and skills at international standards. EMU Education Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Halil İbrahim Yalın stated that through 7 departments and 11 programs, the faculty has goal of bringing up modern, innovative and cooperative teachers who possess life-long learning skills. Prof. Dr. Yalın added that through the courses and services offered to students within their faculty, teacher candidates are equipped with independent thinking, problem solution, initiation, and social skills.
Prof. Dr. Yalın also put forth that with the top number of academic staff members and international accreditations, EMU Education Faculty is the leading faculty within TRNC. Along with equipping the students with professional information, the faculty helps them become teachers compatible with the requirements of the 21st century, thanks to the smart board systems installed in classrooms and laboratories as well as various information and communication technologies integrated into the faculty curricula.
Prof. Dr. Yalın stated that the faculty also regularly takes part in various social responsibility projects aiming to contribute to the development of the Cyprus Turkish Community. In this regard, the faculty has undertaken the coordinatorship of the renewal of the elementary school curricula within the TRNC.
Operating under the Education Faculty, English Language Teaching Department received Germany based AQAS (Agency for Quality Assurance through Accreditation of Study Programmes) Accreditation during the 2013-2014 Academic Year. Currently, the aforesaid department is the only one within the TRNC possessing AQAS accreditation. Prof. Dr. Yalın stated that AQAS is an accreditation board accrediting institutions providing teacher education within the European Union. Upon the receival of the accreditation, English Language Teaching Process passed the quality assurance inspection of AQAS, which will provide the program graduates the opportunity of either working or further studying in the EU countries.
