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Greek Students' Performance Slips in OECD Assessment
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its new triennial PISA report for 2018, in which it ranks scores of countries in the educational performance of their high school students in core subjects.
Greek students' performances ranked...
Greece
Anti-Climate Change Protest Held in Athens' Syntagma Square
Hundreds of Greek students protested against climate change in the country’s capital on Friday morning in what is becoming a regular occurrence, taking place every Friday in many cities around the globe under the title of ''Fridays for Future.''
The...
Greece
Athens Polytechnic Uprising: How Greek Students Overthrew a Coup
As of November 1973, it had been six and a half years since Greece had been placed under strict military rule. Opponents of the junta which took over in the April 21, 1967 coup had been tortured, jailed, exiled, or put...
Greece
Clashes Between Students and Police Erupt Outside Athens University of Economics
Clashes erupted on Monday afternoon between students and Greece's ''MAT'' riot police forces outside the premises of Athens' University of Economics and Business (AUEB).
A group of people tried to attack police forces which were stationed just outside University property.
The...
Greece
Fresh Clashes Between Leftists and Police Disrupt Traffic in Central Athens
Clashes between leftist students and police seem to have returned to central Athens for good since, for yet another day, the city center of the Greek capital was closed on Thursday, as thousands of students marched against the new,...
Greece
Clashes Between Vandals and Police Disrupt Traffic in Athens
Clashes erupted on Wednesday afternoon between a group of unknown individuals and police forces in central Athens.
The incidents took place outside of the University of Economics (ASOEE) on Patission Street, when a number of hooded individuals began setting trash...
Education
Students' Demonstration Ends With Clashes in Central Athens
Another mostly peaceful demonstration of students organized by left-wing student associations ended in clashes in central Athens on Thursday.
Several hundred protesters attempted to overturn the riot police's ''MAT'' trucks, which had been parked vertically along Vasilissis Olgas Avenue in...
Greece
Leftist Students Clash With Police After March Against Educational Reform in Athens
A largely-peaceful student protest organized by leftist student associations ended in clashes with Greece's MAT riot police in central Athens on Friday afternoon.
Several hundred demonstrators attempted to overturn MAT police trucks which had been parked vertically along Vasilissis Olgas...
Education
President Pavlopoulos Meets With Greek American Students in Athens
Greece's President, Prokopios Pavlopoulos, met with a group of Greek American students in the Presidential Mansion of Athens on Monday.
The group of students from the American-Hellenic Institute was headed by Nick Larigakis, the Chairman and Executive Director of the...
Greece
Two Greek Universities Ranked in Top 10 Percent of the World
Greece's two largest Universities are among the top ten percent of all the universities in the world's, according to new rankings published recently.
According to this year's "Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities," also known as the "NTU...