MEV Koleji Özel Basınköy Okulları
Istanbul, Turkey · est. 1997 · PrivateA private school of the Turkish National Education Foundation, Milli Egitim Vakfi, in Basinkoy in the Bakirkoy-Florya district of Istanbul. It opened in 1997 with a high school and added primary, middle and preschool levels in 1998; the campus now holds five separate educational units, including an Anatolian high school and a science high school. The core programme is the Turkish national curriculum, and on top of it the school has run the Cambridge international programme since 2018 and keeps its own pages on the SAT, on AP courses, on an English speaking club and on membership of the UNESCO ASPnet network. The school belongs to the MEV Koleji group, which itself lists four further schools, in Ankara, Izmir Bornova, Buyukcekmece and Guzelbahce.
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Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
Cambridge · authorised programmeCollege Board · authorised programmeMEV Koleji · school is part of the networkWhat stands behind each entry
Part of the University of Cambridge. It allows a school to teach the Cambridge programmes and to enter pupils for the exams. There are four stages and they are authorised separately: primary, lower secondary, IGCSE and A Level. If the stages are known they are named in the line below; if that line is missing, the school does not publish them, and the Cambridge registry does not show stages either - it gives only the name of the centre, the country and whether private candidates are accepted. Cambridge calls what it does registration rather than accreditation, and the network holds about ten thousand schools.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. Which stages - from the early years programme for three-year-olds up to A-Level - this school is approved for is not stated here.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →An American organisation that allows a school to put the letters AP on a pupil's transcript. The permission is granted course by course and tied to a particular teacher, it has to be renewed every year, and College Board reads the course syllabus before granting it.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run advanced AP courses - not the school as a whole, but one by one: by subject and by teacher. Governance, safeguarding and the primary years are not part of that check. Which subjects are actually approved is visible in the ledger. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →Advanced Placement: American advanced courses for the senior years. The exam for a course is set and marked by the College Board, not by the school. A good result is counted by American universities as a first-year course already passed, which saves a student time and money.
What this means for this school. A school does not get to call a course AP automatically: the College Board reads the course syllabus and approves it separately for every subject and every teacher, and the permission has to be renewed each year. Every approved school in the world is listed in the open AP Course Ledger, and this school's entry there stands as a line in the accreditation block above. How many courses a school is approved for, and in which subjects, the ledger does not show in its general listing. AP has no leaving certificate of its own: it sits on top of the school's main programme rather than being a separate system.
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
MEV schools, behind which stands Millî Eğitim Vakfı - a foundation for the support of national education, existing separately from the schools; the schools are run by its commercial company MEV Eğitim A.Ş. Five schools, each with a site of its own: MEV Koleji Özel Ankara Okulları in Ankara, Özel Basınköy Okulları and Özel Büyükçekmece Okulları in Istanbul, Özel İzmir Bornova Okulları and Özel Güzelbahçe Okulları in Izmir. Each school runs the full cycle, from kindergarten to high school. The network issues no accreditation of its own.
What this means for this school. The network owns or operates the school. Its accreditation and programme authorisation the school obtains separately, in its own name.