Nine hundred foreign academics have expressed their opposition to the policy followed by the government in higher education in Greece and their solidarity to their Greek colleagues, calling on Minister of Education and Lifelong Learning Anna Diamantopoulou to withdraw the bill on educational reform.
The initiative was organized by Greek academics, urging their colleagues to sign a document, shown below, opposing the reforms of Anna Diamantopoulou, via the websites http://supportgreekacademia.wordpress.com/ and http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed. cgi? GRUNIV.
”For the defense of higher education in Greece”
The undersigned of this appeal, we express our solidarity to the Greek academics who oppose the government’s proposed reform of higher education, which undermines the prospect of research and teaching within Greek universities and will be another blow to the afflicted Greek society and economy.
Any process of improving the institutional framework of higher education must take the positions of the academic community into account. We understand that the vast majority of the Senate of the Greek universities, the Conference of Rectors of Greek universities and all local associations of university teachers have publicly expressed their opposition to government proposals.
We urge the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religion Anna Diamantopoulou:
(A) to not pass the bill towards the direction the government has developed, as it will have devastating consequences in Higher Education

According to newsbeast.gr, the trial of 13 journalists charged with the defamation of Greece by Focus Magazine has once again been postponed to November 20.
The journalists are charged with defamation, abuse of symbols of the Greek state, and other offences, as they characterized the Greeks as “crooks” and presented the statue “Aphrodite of Milos” making an offensive hand gesture in the Focus Magazine issue of February 22, 2010. Lawyers for the journalists claim that the opinion of the press might be annoying, but everyone must put up with critics under the scope of freedom of the press. In addition, they claim that more serious comments have been written about Greece in other newspapers and magazines.
The editor of Focus Magazine is charged with abuse of the Greek flag, as he published in the front page of the magazine a photo of the Ancient Greek statue “Aphrodite of Milos” bearing a filthy and ripped Greek flag.

The risk of not getting permission to participate in the championship of the Super League is currently facing seven teams, which are likely to be removed from the Professional Sports Committee, which met on Thursday, August 19th, to examine the dossiers of the FCs Super League. Among the teams which are most at risk are PAOK and AEK Athens, while Ioannina, Olympiakos Volou, Kavala, Corfu and OFI teams are also included on the black list.
According to the evaluation of the committee, the above-mentioned FCs cannot qualify based on data that have been registered so far.  The debt of each FC to the State, IKA, and to its players, will be placed under the microscope of the committee, and each FC must submit a bank letter of guarantee equaling 10% of its budget.

Stephen Tyros, a young man from Kalamata, has dreams of walking in the footsteps of Stephen Hawking. Although only 18 years of age, he has achieved impressive performances both in Astrophysics and in Chemistry, and has already won a bronze medal in the 43rd Olympiad in Chemistry.  Tyros is now packing his bags in preparation to attend the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics in Poland. The new star of Astrophysics had no time to take holidays this summer as, along with four other children, he spent his summer studying in order to achieve distinction in Poland.
The young boy, speaking to the newspaper Espresso, said that he loved Astrophysics, thanks to a program that he attended in his school in Kalamata. Stephen has participated in the Chemistry Olympiad 2010 in Tokyo and the Chemistry Olympiad in Beijing. His distinctions and grades in school were high enough for him to be accepted by the University of Durham in England, and after Poland, the ambitious 18-year-old will begin his studies there. As he states, “Abroad professors pay more attention to students. If you try, you know that you will gain some distinction. “