A team of 16-year-old students from the Experimental Senior High School of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki has won the 2024 De La Vega Global Entrepreneurship Award for the game Wizzle, which is based on symmetries and artistic motifs found in all cultures, cultivates the imagination and combats stress.
A student company hailing from Thessaloniki, northern Greece, has clinched the top prize in an international competition for young entrepreneurs with their creation of Wizzle, a 3D-printed puzzle game boasting medical and educational applications.
An online platform (stop-bullying.gov.gr) established to address violence and bullying in Greek schools has already received 41 complaints since its launch less than one week ago, Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Monday.
Authorities removed squatters from the premises of Democritus University of Thrace in Komotini, northeastern Greece, during a police operation on Saturday morning.
Experts have once again raised concerns about the structural deficiencies within the Greek education system, citing evidence indicating a decline in the performance of the country’s students.
The Municipal Authority of Eastern Samos is holding its fourth consecutive student exchange program this month, in cooperation with Germany’s Greifswald.
Greece’s Health Ministry is preparing a program aimed at developing a model for the prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency, Stelios Stylianidis, psychiatrist-psychoanalyst and professor emeritus of social psychiatry at Athens’ Panteion University, told Kathimerini.
Seeking to tackle the rise in cases of bullying, the government has announced a series of preventive measures which include, among others, stricter penalties for students for acts of violence at school and parents’ co-responsibility for their children’s actions.
The leader of leftist SYRIZA opposition has criticized the conservative government for failing to provide online education for two pupils residing on the remote islet of Gavdos, south of Crete.
More than 120,000 university graduates are waiting to be appointed to teaching positions in public primary and secondary schools, and it will not happen anytime soon.
The American Community Schools of Athens (ACS) garnered triple recognition at the UNESCO IFIP Global Inclusion Awards, highlighting its commitment to diversity.
BCA College, a prominent name in maritime education based in Greece, is gearing up to make waves at Posidonia 2024 on June 3-7.
The AHEPA Foundation Inc, linked to American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association, the largest Greek-American association worldwide, will inaugurate the John George Tsitsos Scholarship Fund with a 17.3 million dollar donation from an anonymous benefactor.
Anarchists have claimed responsibility for an arson attack in the Zografou district of central Athens that destroyed several vehicles, including five private school buses, on March 14.
More than 52% (180) of 346 young, successful, innovative entrepreneurs active in Greece and abroad have earned undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from at least one public university in the country, according to Savy.gr, a professional services comparison company.
Education experts are hailing the advent of online cramming schools in Greece as an educational El Dorado, given that some are even paid up 1,200 euros from countries of the Middle East.
