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Covid-19: High Schools to Open Across Greece on Monday

Greek Minister of Education Niki Kerameus announced that high schools will open for classes on Monday, despite the Covid-19 lockdown.

Greece Almost Back to Normalcy as Retail Shops, High Schools Open

More than 150,000 employees returned to work on Monday, with most retail shops opening, as Greece enters the second phase of the relaxation of measures to contain the coronavirus. A government deputy minister said about 25 percent of all the...

Greece's High Schools To Start at Nine o'Clock Instead of 8:15 Beginning Next Year

Greece's high schools are expected to begin their day forty-five minutes later than usual next year, according to deputy Minister of Education Merope Tzoufi. Speaking with Greece's public broadcaster ERT1 on Wednesday, Tzoufi said that the ongoing discussions about changing the...

Greek Student Occupations Keep High Schools Closed

ATHENS – The school year began Sept. 12, but continued sit-ins and occupations by students protesting the failure of the government to provide textbooks and a host of other grievances have shuttered some 580 high schools, idling teachers and...

Severe Changes in Greek High Schools Starting September 2011

The Ministry of Education in Greece is two months away from announcing changes that will set "The New High School".  They are based off all the conventional eduational techniques and new changes will be introduced, which will aim to...

Education Minister on a Mission to Abolish Ancient Greek Lessons in Greek High Schools

Education Minister Nikos Filis is on a mission to take Ancient Greek lessons out of the curriculum of Greece's high schools. The proposal of eliminating Ancient Greek is only one measure in a complete overhaul of Greece's secondary educational system....

Greek Education Minster Plans System Reform, Rejects Military High Schools

Greek Education Minister Nikos Filis inaugurated the first formal National and Social Dialogue Committee for Education on Monday morning, outlining the ministry's reform agenda. Among the reforms Filis wants to implement is a 14 year mandatory school attendance scheme, including the two...

Greek Education Ministry to Fill 3,000 Vacant Positions in Elementary and High Schools

Teachers on childcare leave will be called by the Greek Education Ministry to express their interest in filling vacant positions in elementary and high schools, it was announced. As Education Minister Andreas Loverdos explained, the teachers who are currently...

Chinese Language Courses in Greek High Schools

Following a meeting between the Greek Deputy Education Minister Alexandros Dermetzopoulos and the representative of the Comfucius institute Yang Xiuquin, it was announced that 21 volunteers from China will arrive in Greece by October in order to provide Chinese language lessons to nine Experimental Curriculum...

Greece To Close, Merge 28 High Schools

The Ministry of Education said it's going to move to close or merge 13 secondary schools and merge 15 after doing the same to 118 primary and preschools as part of more austerity cuts. The move came through a ministerial...

High Rate of Students Leaving Private Schools

According to an article in the Greek newspaper “Ethnos”, the economic crisis has also hit the private schools. It is estimated that the number of students attending private schools this year will be decreased by 25%. It seems that...

Childhood Obesity Rate in Greece One of the Highest in Europe

The childhood obesity rate in Greece is one of the highest in Europe, as 41% of children aged 10 to 12 in Greece are overweight or obese. The Greek Parliament's Standing Committee on Social Affairs sought out to better understand...

Record 50,126 Coronavirus Cases in Greece; Schools to Reopen Monday

A new coronavirus record was set in Greece on Tuesday, with the country’s health authorities announcing 50,126 new cases across the country. The number is 13,880 cases more than the 36,246 cases recorded on Monday. This is the highest number...

Unvaccinated Teachers Must Show Negative Tests to Enter Schools in Greece

Unvaccinated teachers in Greece will have to show a negative test or proof of Covid-19 antibodies to enter schools for the upcoming school year.

Covid-19: Schools to Remain Closed for Two Weeks Across Greece

All schools across the country will be closed for a period of two weeks due to heightened transmission of Covid-19 in Greece.