‘Smart’ school plan unveiled
(eKathimerini) Mar 05, 2010
Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou yesterday unveiled an ambitious program aimed at whittling down the current syllabus to a core of fundamental subjects, offering more intensive language lessons and broadening the use of online study in the classroom...

School blackboards facing expulsion
(eKathimerini) Mar 02, 2010
Old-fashioned blackboards will soon be a thing of the past at Greek schools, according to measures due to be announced today by the government aimed at improving the teaching environment for the country’s youngsters....

IB diploma tests to come under scrutiny
(eKathimerini) Feb 26, 2010
Officials of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), a Geneva-based body offering a highly respected educational diploma, said yesterday that IBO representatives would supervise examinations in Greece this May...

Rector, protesters clash over university asylum
(eKathimerini) Feb 23, 2010
A group of anti-establishment protesters who yesterday briefly occupied the offices of the rector of the National Technical University of Athens have clashed with the rector over what constitutes university asylum....

Remarks on Facebook get schoolgirl expelled
(eKathimerini) Feb 12, 2010
A 14-year-old girl has been forced to leave a junior high school in Hania, Crete, after it emerged that she had started a page on the Facebook social networking site to express dislike for her principal....

State must pay fine to college
(eKathimerini) Jan 22, 2010
A landmark ruling by an administrative appeals court yesterday ordered the state to pay 50,000-euro fine to the owner of a private college after its degree certificates were ranked below those granted by state universities....

Lesser status for college degrees
(eKathimerini) Jan 05, 2010
Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou yesterday drew a clear distinction between foreign colleges in Greece and regular universities, noting that the former would not be afforded the same status as the latter,...

Graduates happy to seek fortune abroad
(eKathimerini) Dec 31, 2009
Greek graduates are more likely to consider moving abroad to find work than any of their European peers, according to the results of a survey made public yesterday....

Academics want safer campus
(eKathimerini) Dec 19, 2009
More than 100 lecturers and professors at the Athens Law School declared their support yesterday for a recent initiative by the university’s dean to introduce security guards and identity cards on campus, following recent unrest at several institutions ...

Rectors arrive at asylum consensus
(eKathimerini) Dec 14, 2009
Rectors attending a summit on Saturday chaired by Education Minister Anna Diamantopoulou agreed that the university asylum law preventing police from entering campuses should not be abolished but effectively enforced, as the minister called for a tally of...

Asylum dominates Rectors' Assembly
Dec 12, 2009
The Assembly of University Rectors ended on Saturday, with education minister Anna Diamantopoulou reaffirming that the government has no intention of changing the university asylum regime....

Teacher from Greece to receive honor today
(Charlotte Observer, NC) Dec 11, 2009
International Teacher Exchange Services, a Charlotte-based international teacher placement company, will present its 2009 International Education Week Spirit Award this morning to Zoi Karavokyri, an exchange teacher from Greece working at Socrates Academy...

Students stand firm on asylum
(eKathimerini) Dec 11, 2009
As students at Athens Law School continued a sit-in, protesting a decision by the institution’s authorities to monitor access to the campus by placing security guards at its gates, thousands more students took to the streets to condemn the move and call...

Student sit-in over security measures
(eKathimerini) Dec 10, 2009
Students at Athens Law School yesterday launched a sit-in on their campus to protest a move by the institution’s authorities to tackle the abuse of university asylum by limiting access to the premises with the issuance of identity cards for students and...

Push for fresh look at asylum
(eKathimerini) Dec 09, 2009
A fresh debate about the university asylum law, which bars the entry of police onto campuses unless there are exceptional circumstances, has begun despite the government’s apparent unwillingness to lead it....