BODRUM VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL

Bodrum Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi-BMTAL is a vocational high school in a small town located in the South West coast of Turkey. It was founded in 1947 . It is the biggest Vocational high school in town. We have approximately 800 students and 50 teachers. Students take exam to study at a Vocational High School in Turkey. Bodrum is a Touristic town and we have almost six months season. The region offers 3S tourism to holiday makers. In the past 10 years Vocational schools have been playing very important role educating and devoloping students' skills, not only their social skills but also thechnical and proffessional ones so that they can be fully qualified for their sectors. The growth and enlargement of sector, our school has had very important missions in our region. It is a vocational high school specializing in Hospitality and Tourism, Yachting, Nutrition- Food and Beverage, Child Care( with a kindergarten) , Information Technologies, Beauty and Hair Dressing, Photograpy-Graphic Designing both theoretical and practical to meet sectors' needs. Our students do study-internship in their filds either in summer or in school time by working in sector. We aim to cooperate with activities between organisations working in the field of vocational education and training "VET". We reinforce our students in their working life, promote their skills, responding to the needs of the career sector, improve the qualication of teachers and trainers. In addition to these our students learn English and German as foreign languages besides their main subjects.