Greece

Directors, producers, and actors who worked on the upcoming Netflix film "Beckett," which was shot entirely in Greece, praised the country as the perfect destination for the action thriller. Director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino was interested in exploring areas of the...

The rectors of the country's main universities on Wednesday asked Greece's education ministry to drastically reduce the number of students admitted in the next academic year, saying their underfunded institutions were unable to ensure the quality of courses. Patras...

The Board of Directors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) today authorized the disbursement of 2.8 billion euros to Greece, which is the remaining amount of the second tranche of ESM financial assistance. “Today’s decision to disburse 2.8 billion euros...

The Greece 's Athens University rector and vice-rectors on Tuesday proposed the introduction of electronic voting by the student body in order to decide major issues affecting the university, such as whether to stage sit-ins and occupy the premises. "In...

The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) has announced the resignation of Andreas Taprantzis from his position as Executive Director of the Fund's Board of Directors. The resignation is effective as of November 1, 2014. Andreas Tapantzis has been a...

In an average university, in any country of the Eurozone, the new academic year will start with scientific research. In Greece, however, the newly elected senate authorities are forced to face phenomena that can only be described as third world...

The rectors of eight Greek universities who have failed to supply the Education Ministry with details of their 4,574 administrative staff, a third of whom must join a so-called mobility scheme, are reportedly seeking a meeting with troika officials...

The deadline for the administrations of universities to send their files to ASEP with the administrators' names who are going to be suspended, expires on Oct. 9. According to the current situation after the order of the Minister of Education,...

The rectors of Greek Higher Educational Institutions (AEI) said they will refuse to provide government officials with the names of people who could be suspended or fired as part of a scheme to shed public workers. The decision came at...

The Mediterranean Festival of New Directors took place in Larissa, the capital and biggest city of the Thessaly region of Greece from April 4-7 and featured 51 short films, 18 in the international category and 33 in the Mediterranean. A photography exhibition by...

Greek cinema has a well-known paradoxical side: there may be no state funding during a crushing economic crisis, but creativity seems to be surging and changing the dynamics of contemporary Greek cinematography. The modern Greek cinema consists of many new...

Universities’ function is at stake as a result of the extensive cuts to University assets in the Bank of Greece at the beginning of March (PSI). During today’s urgent Hellenic Universities Rectors' Synod it was established that several Greek universities...

Culture and Tourism Minister Pavlos Geroulanos accepted the resignation of the members of the board of directors of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture (HFC) on Wednesday. Previously, the chairman of the Hellenic Foundation For Culture, Giorgos Mpampiniotis, had stated: "The...

"niversities should already have gone to the best allocation of manpower, even with the increase of teaching hours, and the assumption of the student pass by the universities would not cost more for the same institutions, which will now...

 According to newsbeast.gr the majority of Rectors after their meeting estimated that the new law regarding higher education includes imprecise and unconstitutional clauses. Their main concern is the new Board of Trustees. In fact, the procedures for the election...