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Greek Education Minister Supports Prisoners' Right to Study

Nikos Romanos, a 21-year-old anarchist and bank robber, started a hunger strike in prison four weeks ago when his request to study at the technical college where he was admitted at the beginning of the year was denied. With Romanos’ life...

SYRIZA Supports Abolition of National Exams

As Pan-Hellenic National Exams come around, SYRIZA has promised a new way of entering higher education institutions. The opposition party criticized the current system and left open the possibility of abolishing it, referring to “free access to higher education”. SYRIZA representatives stated that...

New College Students See Future Abroad

With the results of the Pan-Hellenic Exams just announced, a new class of Greek college students is set to begin their education, but many said they see their lives elsewhere now, with the country's crushing economic crisis and 65...

Fewer University and Technical Institute Enrollments

The great reduction in student enrollment in the Technical Educational Institutes (TEI), which was proposed by the team of the Minister of Education and Culture, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, caused the disagreement of Deputy Minister Theodoros Papatheodorou. On June 11, Arvanitopoulos announced...

Bambiniotis Suggests the Minister of Education Be Made Permanent and Supported by Successive Governments

The Minister of Education, George Bambiniotis, expressed the opinion that the Minister of Education should be permanent and supported by every elected government, in his interview with the Greek radio station, Real FM. “Particularly in the Ministry of Education, there...