A twofold form of guarding universities in the center of Athens is envisioned for the new police force, according to reports.
EDUCATION
The forces that benefit from allowing the public school system to continue its downward slide have reared their ugly head again.
The Hellenic American Union is organizing two sets of seminars for foreign language institutions and teachers in Greece next month.
With the completion of their training on Tuesday, the 400 special guards who will staff the new police corps permanently stationed at universities will be granted a two-week leave before assuming their duties.
Greece’s Ministry of Education has announced that the number of places in universities and ecclesiastical academies available to high school seniors taking the country-wide entrance exams starting next week is 68,394, down from 77,415 last year.
As part of the effort to attract foreign students, hence providing higher education institutes with a more extroverted outlook, a growing number of Greek medical schools are introducing or planning to introduce English-language undergraduate programs.
In a reflection of the government’s drive for a more outward-looking educational architecture, a Greek and a Chinese university are launching a joint study program.
Holding banners saying that “university police will not enter our schools,” student associations brought parts of downtown Athens to a standstill on Friday afternoon with a protest march.
After four months, the training of the 400 newly hired special guards who will staff the university campus police forces will be completed next week on May 17.
Police officers in Thessaloniki found 11 Molotov cocktails near the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Wednesday morning. The seized items have been sent for forensic analysis and an investigation is ongoing.
The Laboratory of Special Vocational Education (EEEEK), a public secondary school for students with disabilities in the Athens suburb of Agios Dimitrios, has been nominated for the European Commission’s 2022 Vocational Education and Training (VET) Excellence Awards.
The Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, has ruled that legislation which provides for the creation of a new police corps, permanently stationed on university campuses, does not violate academic freedom and the self-governing legal status of the institutions.
Three people were arrested on Tuesday afternoon during skirmishes with police at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
If the rector’s office requests it, police will send forces to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to ensure that the works for the construction of the library are completed without any problems, a senior ranking officer told Kathimerini on Monday.
Protesters opposed to the dismantling of an unlicensed “social space” and the construction of a library in its place clashed with police on the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Tuesday.
The newly built walls at the ground floor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, where university authorities are planning to create a new library were destroyed by unknown vandals during the night.
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