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Cyprus Open University Offers Distance Greek Language Study

  With the new online program ‘Learning the Greek Language’, the Open University of Cyprus (OUC), in its capacity as a institution of education and culture, will be able to promote Hellenism around the world by using the new technology...

Greek Students Unable Pay Open University Tuition

The number of prospective Greek students who wish to study at the National Open University has sharply reduced as the economic crisis does not allow them to pay the tuition. The deadline for the applications was two days ago and...

Greece's Open University at Risk Due to Lack of Funds

The Greek Open University is in danger of having its study programs cancelled and being shut down due to lack of funds. A large number of faculty and staff of the Open University is getting paid by a program funded...

Hellenic Open University Welcomes 10,000 Students

Once again this year ten thousand dreams of Open University studies will come true. This is the number of students who will be enrolled in the Hellenic Open University for the academic year 2014-2015. There are 4,980 who will attend...

Open University Operating in Preveza

A new type of university is going to operate in Preveza and Kanalaki. This university which is open to everyone is a new institution which started about α month ago with the participation of many students. In the Citizen's...

Ministry of Education Reduces Tuition at the Greek Open University

The Minister of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, Anna Diamantopoulou, decided to reduce the costs of study for students of the Greek Open University. The fees amounted to 700 euros for the undergraduate students and to 850 euros for...

Greek Open University Accepts Record Number of Students

More than a decade after it was established, the Greek Open University will next year make available a record 8,260 places on undergraduate and post-graduate courses to people who for a variety of reason were not able to complete...

British University Opens New European Campus in Thessaloniki

The University of York in the United Kingdom announced on Wednesday the opening of a new European campus in Thessaloniki, Greece. University of York Vice-Chancellor Charlie Jeffery has announced that the university has formed a partnership with CITY College, one...

Teaching Staff Stop Anarchist Group Opening Office at Greek University

Lecturers at Athens University on Wednesday blocked a group of anarchists belonging to the Rouvikonas group of setting up a meeting place at the Faculty of Philosophy. The teaching staff formed a human chain in front of the room that would...

Rouvikonas Anarchists 'Open Office' in Greek University

The self-styled anarchists of the Rouvikonas (Rubicon) group have announced through social media that they are setting up a meeting place in Athens University in order to meet sympathizers to their cause. Rouvikonas, who has assumed responsibility for numerous attacks on...

Prosecutors' Union Says no Probe Opened into Thrace University Professors

Greece's association of prosecutors categorically rejected media reports on Friday that a colleague in Rhodope, a region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, had ordered a preliminary investigation into university professors who are using the phrase "Turkish minority" in their...

National Technological University of Athens Reopens

The National Technological University of Athens (NTUA) has reopened after its administrative employees ended their long-standing strikes asking for the reinstatement of their suspended colleagues. This development allows students to return back to their classes and finish the academic semester. On Tuesday University represantives stated that...

Athens University Senate Appeals to Reopen on Monday

The Senate of Athens University demands that courses begin on December 16, while at the same time aims to overpass all the technical difficulties so that administrative staff will resume working. UoA Rector Theodossis Pelegrinis requested a senate meeting...

Columbia University Announces Global Center in Athens

The President of Columbia University in New York, Lee Bollinger, announced the foundation of an International Education Center in Athens on Sunday, November 6. The news came as part of a delegation of 30 leading US Universities currently visiting Greece. The...