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Greek Education Minster Plans System Reform, Rejects Military High Schools

Greek Education Minister Nikos Filis inaugurated the first formal National and Social Dialogue Committee for Education on Monday morning, outlining the ministry's reform agenda. Among the reforms Filis wants to implement is a 14 year mandatory school attendance scheme, including the two...

LaTrobe Organizes Program on Greeks Abroad at the Community Center

The LaTrobe University Department of Languages and Linguistics is offering an interesting program on Hellenism in cooperation with the Greek Community of Melbourne Centre of Contemporary Culture. The program will last six weeks with six hours of teaching per...

New Bill Could Put 'Last Nail in the Coffin' for Greek Universities

Higher education in Greece has always been the plaything of education ministers who tried to put their mark in history by passing bills that would later carry their name. The bills, of course, were never for improving the level...

Greek Students' Grades Drop Lowering University Admission Standards

The final lists on Greek students’ admission to higher education were announced on Wednesday, August 26. Every year, Greek students take the Panhellenic exams in May and then submit their University preferences. By the end of the summer, the Greek...

Greece Ranks Low on OECD's World Education Rankings

The latest Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report on education, the largest worldwide ranking regarding school systems that has ever been conducted, found that Asian countries have the best educational systems in the world. Furthermore, the report noted that...

Four Greek Universities Among Best in the World

Four Greek universities were featured on the list of the best universities in the world, according to QS’s new international university ranking table, depending on the field of expertise. The National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) ranked in 29th place in...

Facebook Group Calls Students to Participate in School Sit-ins

The Greek Minister of Education Andreas Loverdos has reacted to the “sit-ins” of secondary school students throughout Greece. As the Greek Minister stated yesterday in his address to the Greek Parliament, he expressed major concerns on how missed school...

Pressure That Kills: Greek University Entrance Exams

The three-week-long university entrance exam is the single event that defines a Greek student's success - or failure - in the Greek educational system. The pressure to score high in tough tests, one day after the other, in combination with Greek society's view...

Survey Finds Greece's Education System the Worst in Europe

A recent survey conducted by the U.K. research and analysis institution Economist Intelligence Unit for the British publishing house Pearson, found that the Greek education system ranked last across Europe, and 33rd in the world ranking. Greece’s ranking is the...

Preparing for Greek Universities Costing Families Around €14,000

Students and families with expectations of attending a university or a technological educational institute (TEI) in Greece is a definite effort that requires sacrifices from all the family. It is estimated that the preparation of a student for the...