Greece

The news that it was a 49 year-old teacher at the primary school in Kymi , Greece, who set the school on fire on April 4, has come as a shock to the local community. Reportedly, the reason was because...

According to a decision recently issued by the Ministry of Education, the new academic year will find Greece’s school map largely shrunken. A lot of elementary and preschools around Greece will close, merge or be degraded. According to the decision,...

The Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports has begun a special ticket issuing program for museums and archaeological sites using computers and mobile phones. The e-ticket program is going to operate within the next few months...

Greek universities presented English-language undergraduate and postgraduate programs as part of new efforts to attract students to study in Greece.

The members of the new cabinet in Greece were sworn in by the Archbishop of Athens and All of Greece Ieronymos at the Presidential Mansion at noon on Tuesday. The ceremony took place in front of the President of the...

Newly elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced his cabinet a few hours after he was sworn in by President Prokopis Pavlpoulos. Prominent New Democracy lawmaker Nikos Dendias was given the key role of foreign minister while Christos Staikouras was appointed...

The new members of the Greek government were sworn in on Wednesday afternoon, in a ceremony held in the presence of President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. On Tuesday, Tsipras reshuffled his cabinet ahead of a keynote economy...

Greece's premier Alexis Tsipras announced a reshuffle of his government in an effort to reverse the tide as his SYRIZA party lags well behind conservative New Democracy in opinion polls. The reshuffle included 13 new faces, but there were no...

Greece's new, expanded cabinet as decided by Friday's government reshuffle was sworn in before President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Saturday at 1:00 pm at the Presidential Mansion. Speaking to reporters after the ceremony, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras signaled he would...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had announced a government reshuffle for quite some time, however, speculation mounted on Friday with the long-awaited shake-up expected all day. The announcement was finally made at 10 p.m. on Friday by Olga Gerovasili. The...

The Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs announced on Tuesday that the PanHellenic Exams for admission to higher education for children of Greeks abroad and children of Greek officials serving abroad will be held from September 7 to 11 at...

Greek Prime Minister kept most of his Cabinet intact on June 9, but shook it up a bit in the wake of his New Democracy Conservatives taking a beating in the European Parliament elections to the major opposition Coalition...

The Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports, communicated to the Ministry of Administration Reform and e-Governance its plan to suspend no less than 1,655 administrative employees from universities around the country. According to the list submitted to...

Education Minister, Constantine Arvanitopoulos, signed the final decision concerning the closure and merger of elementary schools and preschools all around Greece. From September on, 118 elementary schools and preschools will be deleted from the school map of Greece. In particular,...

Greek officials said they are going to allow Muslims to use the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (OAKA) and the Peace and Friendship Stadium (SEF) for huge celebrations for the period of the Ramadan religious time and fasting, as...