{"id":9167,"date":"2025-09-30T02:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=9167"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:38:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:38:27","slug":"bilkent-malatya-laboratory-school-opens-for-2025-26-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=9167","title":{"rendered":"Bilkent\u00a0Malatya Laboratory School Opens for 2025\u201326 Academic Year\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A ceremony was held to mark the opening of Bilkent Malatya Laboratory School (BiMS), a new educational institution launched by the \u0130hsan Do\u011framac\u0131 Foundation in the Battalgazi district of Malatya. The school officially began the 2025\u201326 academic year with kindergarten and first and second grades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malatya Deputy Governor Talat Tabur, \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc University Rector Prof. Nusret Akpolat, Turgut \u00d6zal University Rector Prof. Recep Bentli, Bilkent University Rector Prof. K\u00fcr\u015fat Aydo\u011fan, Battalgazi Mayor Bayram Ta\u015fk\u0131n and Malatya Provincial Director of National Education Beh\u00e7et Bak\u0131r were all in attendance at the event.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his speech, BiMS Founding Representative Mustafa Aydos emphasized the school\u2019s modern facilities, built on a 350-acre campus, and outlined its phased development plan. The school offers English instruction from preschool and implements the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. Aydos also highlighted that all students received either full or partial scholarships, with the average scholarship rate reaching approximately 80 percent in the first year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. K\u00fcr\u015fat Aydo\u011fan highlighted that the Malatya school joins Bilkent\u2019s family of schools in Ankara and Erzurum and aims to raise globally minded, socially responsible students.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the speeches, guests were invited to tour the school and its facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A ceremony was held to mark the opening of Bilkent Malatya Laboratory School (BiMS), a new educational institution launched by the \u0130hsan Do\u011framac\u0131 Foundation in the Battalgazi district of Malatya. The school officially began the 2025\u201326 academic year with kindergarten and first and second grades.  Malatya Deputy Governor Talat Tabur, \u0130n\u00f6n\u00fc University Rector Prof. Nusret Akpolat, Turgut \u00d6zal University Rector Prof. Recep Bentli, Bilkent University Rector Prof. K\u00fcr\u015fat Aydo\u011fan, Battalgazi Mayor Bayram Ta\u015fk\u0131n and Malatya Provincial Director[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,196,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}