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Education fails students Study finds many high school teenagers lack skills in range of subjects

As party leaders debated yesterday in Parliament the government's proposed reforms to tertiary education, a study seen by Kathimerini indicated that there are serious shortcomings in the education that high school students receive.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
PM asks Turkey to revise stance
As the government keeps its finger on the diplomatic pulse quickened by a midair collision between Greek and Turkish fighter jets on Tuesday, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis called on Turkey yesterday to revise its stance toward Greece and the European Union.
Smog follows urban sprawl
The suburbs of Athens have been spreading further out in the last few years as residents seek quieter and cleaner areas to live.
Rubble to be recycled by builders
The sight of some 5.5 million tons of rubble left behind at construction sites in Greece each year could become a thing of the past in 10 years...
Father of 4 in child porn link
Police in Ioannina were yesterday investigating whether a 43-year-old man arrested in the city had abused young boys after arresting him for peddling indecent photographs of children which he had taken himself.
Queen Margrethe II...
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark looks at antiquities in Thessaloniki's Museum of Byzantine Culture yesterday.
Police want to extend use of CCTV cameras
Police have asked the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (APPD) to extend the usage of 342 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras across the city for one more year, sources said yesterday.
IN BRIEF
Probe ordered into alleged abuse of Omonia drug addict by officer : The alternate chief of Attica Police, Yiannikas Sakkas, ordered a sworn investigation...
Service to be suspended for five hours from 11 a.m. on Monday : Trolley bus workers will stage a five-hour work stoppage on Monday, their union said yesterday...
Campaign in Syntagma from Monday : The Hellenic Pneumological Society has organized a series of events in Syntagma Square, beginning on Monday...
Police cleared : Three police officers charged with beating a suspect in custody five years ago were cleared...
Suspect surrenders : A 28-year-old man surrendered to authorities in Crete yesterday after allegedly stabbing to death Roman Paraskevopolous...
PAOK defeat : The Hellenic Soccer Federation (EPO) yesterday made the initial moves to ban PAOK from taking part in the championship...
Sea quake : An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale yesterday shook southern parts of the Ionian Sea...
Bank raid : Two armed robbers held up a branch of the National Bank of Greece on Constantinopoleos Street in Thessaloniki...
Charged up : Greeks are participating strongly in a battery-recycling program that has been running for the last two years in seven cities...

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EDITORIAL
The ruin of the education system
 Inventories taken every so often of the education sector show deficits far greater and more dangerous than those in the economy. Nationwide senior high school exams and scientific studies carried out among students show that our young people confuse words (and therefore their meanings) and are lacking in what is the purpose of every education system - critical thought.
COMMENTARY
Quagmire for ferry tickets
 The deregulation of coastal shipping and ticket prices will surely be publicly debated very soon. The summer has begun, but no one seems to know what the new situation will be regarding sea travel and ticketing under the new system. The shipping sector wants to abandon the current system of ticketing and adopt one more like the system used for air travel. That means the price of a ticket will depend on factors such as the season, the number of empty seats, destination and length of time ahead of the journey for which the ticket is purchased.
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