The visa process for foreign students coming to Greece to study at colleges and universities will be made easier, according to the provisions of a private education bill tabled in Parliament.

The Education Ministry is pushing for changes in regulations governing the operation of private schools, which include the introduction of afternoon tutoring, extracurricular activities in the summer, and changes in the way principals are chosen. 

University funding will be tied to objective metrics, including performance outcomes, according to a five-pronged blueprint designed by the conservative government to overhaul the country’s chronically dysfunctional tertiary education system.

English will be taught at 58 kindergartens across the country in the new academic year, as part of a pilot program introduced by the Education Ministry.

In a stern message on Tuesday, the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios said any conversion of the former Orthodox cathedral of Hagia Sophia into a mosque “will turn millions of Christians around the world against Islam” and expressed hope that “wisdom and reason ultimately prevail.”

Greek students will soon be in a position to capitalize on the AI boom as state universities are set to introduce courses on artificial intelligence to their syllabus, Kathimerini has learned.

In an effort aimed at stemming a steady rise in recent years in transfers of first-year students to Greece’s major universities, the Education Ministry on Friday announced which departments of the country’s universities will allow transfers.

The new school year will start earlier on September 7 instead of the 11th, which is the traditional date, in order to cover the material that was left out in the previous term after schools were closed to halt the spread of the coronavirus.

As part of its bid to upgrade public education, the government is to offer Greek schools the opportunity to become “model” or “experimental” institutions, a scheme that has drawn the interest of thousands of parents.

A total of 82,159 graduating high schoolers will sit this year’s nationwide university entry exams that started on Monday, amid strict health protocols to avoid the transmission of the coronavirus.

A controversial bill foreseeing an overhaul of the state education system, with evaluation for teachers and schools, more school hours for foreign languages and information technology and English lessons in kindergarten was submitted to Parliament’s plenary session Tuesday ahead of a vote expected Wednesday. 

The Education Ministry aims to draw students from European Union countries to Greece for undergraduate degrees in the English language, with a bill being tabled in Parliament this week targeting students principally from Balkan member-states, Kathimerini has learned.

We have been treated in recent days to yet another episode of the ongoing drama between the education unions and the ministry, where the issue at the heart of the dispute over the live-streaming of classes is the evaluation of teachers. 

It is official: primary schools, preschools and day care facilities will re-open on Monday, June 1st.

Greek universities are discussing how to effectively manage the summer examinations while guarding against the spread of the new coronavirus.

As secondary school pupils prepare to return to class on Monday, a week after senior high students, authorities are planning to bring forward the launch of the next academic year, to September 1, in a bid to help schools make up for lessons lost during the pandemic.

Final-year pupils returned to class on Monday as secondary schools opened for the first time in two months as part of the government’s gradual lifting of a public lockdown.

Senior high school pupils are scheduled to return to class on Monday in the next key phase of the government’s plan to lift restrictions imposed in March to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.

The preparations for the return of final-year pupils to school on Monday entered the final stretch on Wednesday in what is viewed as the most significant litmus test after the lifting of the lockdown measures that were imposed in March.

Greece's Archbishop Ieronymos has written to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to ask for churches to be opened for the country's faithful as long as social distancing regulations imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic are observed.