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Education
Greek Students' Performance Slips in OECD Assessment
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its new triennial PISA report for 2018, in which it ranks scores of countries in the educational performance of their high school students in core subjects.
Greek students' performances ranked...
Greece
Greek Yiayia Honored for Learning Pontic Greek Dialect at 92
Maria Sotiriadou, a 92-year old Greek woman living in Thessaloniki, will soon be honored by the University of Macedonia for her dedication to learning the Pontic Greek dialect through a series of classes offered by the University.
Born in June...
Greece
Police Operation in Athens' Economics and Business University Busts Anarchists' Hideout
A large police operation inside the premises of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) took place in the early hours of Sunday.
Large numbers of police officers were deployed inside and outside of the University, following Friday's warning...
Greece
Fresh Clashes Between Leftists and Police Disrupt Traffic in Central Athens
Clashes between leftist students and police seem to have returned to central Athens for good since, for yet another day, the city center of the Greek capital was closed on Thursday, as thousands of students marched against the new,...
Education
Students' Demonstration Ends With Clashes in Central Athens
Another mostly peaceful demonstration of students organized by left-wing student associations ended in clashes in central Athens on Thursday.
Several hundred protesters attempted to overturn the riot police's ''MAT'' trucks, which had been parked vertically along Vasilissis Olgas Avenue in...
Education
University of Athens Will Offer First English-Language Bachelors Degree in Greece
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) presented on Wednesday the outlines for the country's first undergraduate course of study (outside of a degree in the English language) to be conducted exclusively in English.
This is the first time...
Australia
Victoria Government Will Send 22 Students to Greece to Study Democracy
The government of Victoria in Australia recently announced that it will hold a competition for students who would like to travel to Greece for educational tour focusing on civics and Democracy.
A total of up to twenty-two students who are...
Australia
THI Australia Supports Mentoring at Remote Schools Across Greece
The Hellenic Initiative Australia is supporting an innovative education and youth empowerment program that connects students from remote and disadvantaged schools across Greece with mentors from around the world.
The Tipping Point program brings the world into the classroom through...
Greece
Leftist Students Clash With Police After March Against Educational Reform in Athens
A largely-peaceful student protest organized by leftist student associations ended in clashes with Greece's MAT riot police in central Athens on Friday afternoon.
Several hundred demonstrators attempted to overturn MAT police trucks which had been parked vertically along Vasilissis Olgas...
Education
First Exclusively English-Language Bachelors Degree to Be Offered by Athens University
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) will soon establish Greece's first undergraduate degree to be offered as a result of a course of study conducted exclusively in the English language.
The leading Greek university's School of Philosophy will...