Developments

Dear All,

With the start of 2008, I am going to apply some improvements into my life and my business. First of all, I would like to share some recent news at the organization of the "11th Intarnational Convention on Students' İmece (Quality Control) Circles". Each day brings some improvements. We do not want to be late at sending the broshures of the Convention which will be held on 3-5 December, 2008 in Istanbul. We are aware of the fact that being late might rduce the participation rate of the international circles. However, our all efforts aim at reducing the registartion fees of the students and teachers. We are grateful to those who are supporting us from different organizations on behalf of my country.
We have decided to change the name of QOMER due to our concern to our mother tongue, Turkish. As you all know the letter "Q" , which stands for "Quality" in our title, does not exist in Turkish. Combining the "Quality" with the "Peace" ; we have changed the name of our Organization as; "Quality & Peace Education Center". As you all know, we also included this theme within our ICT Seagulls Project as "Giving importance to mother tongue". Please share your comments upon our name.

During the following term, I am going to give 2 courses at 2 different universities. "Innovative Teaching" at the Educational Faculty of Boğaziçi University and "Quality in Education" at the Arts and Sciences Faculty of Istanbul Yeditepe University. We will travel towards new horizons with my future students.
You see the Turkish participants of 10th Convention which took place at City Montessori School, Lucknow, India. We had presented an Indian-Turkish Flag Plaque to the foudner principal Dr.Vineeta kamran during the Award Ceremony of the event. We will feel honour for organizing a similar event here in ıstanbul for the participating countries.
With love and peace...
Hayal KÖKSAL