With university entrance exams in full swing this week, the union representing secondary school teachers, OLME, will skip Wednesday’s nationwide strike by public sector workers.
EDUCATION
The umbrella union representing all public sector workers on Tuesday approved a request from one of its members to be exempted from Wednesday’s general strike.
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Education Minister Niki Kerameus has petitioned an Athens court to declare a 24-hour public sector strike scheduled for Wednesday illegal, arguing that it will hamper the process of national university entrance exams.
The national exams started at schools across the country on Monday, with the candidates having to bring a negative self-test before being allowed to enter the premises.
High school graduates of all grades can now get a certified digital certificate.
A university department in southern Greece operates under woefully inadequate conditions, students complain.
The language we speak is the house we inhabit, the map and limits of our world, the vessel for our travels. The language twe learn at a later age opens up new worlds within us and in space and time.
The University of Athens School of Medicine is opening a new chapter with the inauguration of its first English-language undergraduate program.
Incentives for the promotion of innovation and the increase of revenues of universities and research centers are included in a draft law that the Education and Development Ministries will put to public consultation in the coming days.
Workshops that were piloted this year in 218 schools across the country – in subjects such as robotics, volunteering, entrepreneurship, sex education and road safety – will be integrated in the school curriculum in the new academic year, Education Minister Niki Kerameus said Thursday.
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As part of the government’s stated objective to weaken the influence of political parties within universities, the Education Ministry will introduce a single ballot paper for student elections.
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A laboratory teaching staff member at Athens University (EKPA) was suspended Thursday following allegations of sexual harassment by female students.
The recruitment of officers who will man the so-called university police teams that will protect academic institutions around the country is set to begin in the coming days, according to the government on Monday.
Fear, weakness or conscious rigidity? Are the limits between thought and reaction so narrow or has New Democracy’s steady lead over SYRIZA in the opinion polls frozen any intention – if we assume it exists – by its leader, Alexis Tsipras, for any shift in the way he criticizes the government?
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The leader of Greece’s main opposition SYRIZA party lashed out against the center-right government’s education reforms on Friday, demanding that it takes back the “outrageous” increase of university admission grades.
The Education Ministry officially abolished 37 new university and technical college departments that had been announced by the previous leftist administration prior to the 2019 national elections.
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