Education Ministry

The Greek Ministry of Education and UNICEF are working together to help refugee children stranded in Greece complete their education. UNICEF Central and Eastern Europe Regional Director Marie-Pierre Poirier ended her four-day visit to Greece on Saturday. She came to...

The proposal of Greek Education Minister Nikos Filis to legalize 2,500 public sector employees who were hired using forged school degrees has caused an uproar among opposition parties. Reportedly, Filis stated that the 2,500 people who had been hired in...

Protesting teachers on Friday managed to circumvent police and storm the education ministry headquarters from a side door while a student event was taking place. It was around 12:30 pm when a group of angry protesters took riot police by...

Refugee children who will stay in Greece will attend the local schools where their families are staying, according to a plan drafted by the ministry of education. According to a ministry of education plan, revealed by Proto Thema newspaper, refugee...

The new bill on education is to bring back "eternal students" and the university asylum, while students will participate in dean elections. Articles on the proposed bill by Education Minister Nikos Filis includes: Full restoration of the status of the so-called...

Higher education in Greece has always been the plaything of education ministers who tried to put their mark in history by passing bills that would later carry their name. The bills, of course, were never for improving the level...

Education Minister Nikos Filis and Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece met on Tuesday to discuss the controversy created over the exemption from religious education of non-Christian Orthodox students. The meeting came after Alternate Education Minister Sia Anagnostopoulou...

New Alternate Education Minister Sia Anagnostopoulou heralded the simplification of procedures for students who want to be exempted from religious education classes. The procedure now is that students who do not wish to attend religious education classes have to file...

Interim Education Minister Frosso Kiaou said on Thursday that the transitional government are doing all they can to fill the 6,500 empty teacher posts as schools open on Friday. The school period 2015-2016 starts 6,500 teachers short in primary and...

Sweeping changes in all levels of education are introduced with an omnibus bill the Greek Education Ministry presented on Thursday. Teachers and professors will not be evaluated, the university asylum is brought back, "eternal students" will remain, the state will be...