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Greek Education Minister Vows to Help Greek Schools Abroad

ATHENS – Greek Education Minister Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos has assured that “the education of Greek pupils living abroad will be significantly enhanced at all levels from Primary to Higher Education this coming autumn,” with a written statement he distributed to the Greek Members of the Parliament a few days ago following a question from Tasos Kourakis of SYRIZA on the crucial subject.
Kourakis had warned that Greek High Schools in Germany will not accept new pupils for the new school year and that Greeks of  the Diaspora are frustrated. According to a 2011 bill, when PASOK’s Anna Diamantopoulou was serving as Education Minister, all Greek secondary schools abroad would stop accepting new students in September 2012, and Saturday-morning Greek language lessons offered by private individuals, organizations or churches would stop being funded by the Greek state in the framework of the efforts to curtail state expenditures. Arvanitopoulos said he wants to change that and enhance all Greek-language schools abroad, to promote Greek culture and safeguard the bonds with the Diaspora.

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