Tasos Kourakis

Tertiary student transfers from one institution to another for the 2013-2014 academic year have been deemed unconstitutional by the Council of State, meaning that transferred students must return to their original school. Meanwhile the Education Minister has declared changes...

The new ministry of education has decided to abolish the so-called "Bank of Topics" from secondary education, starting from the May-June 2015 examination period. The “bank” required high schools to give 50 percent of marks from exam questions submitted by...

Greece's Education Ministry will withdraw an art history school book that was criticized for misrepresenting the history of the Parthenon Marbles housed in the British Museum. The textbook, published in 2003, says that the Parthenon treasures, almost half of the 160-meter-long frieze on...

ATHENS - Greek Education Minister Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos has assured that “the education of Greek pupils living abroad will be significantly enhanced at all levels from Primary to Higher Education this coming autumn,” with a written statement he distributed to...

25 activists from Spain, Italy, Ireland, France, as well as from Greece, participated in European demonstrations against the Greek crisis and the EU's and the IMF's policy. 16 were arrested early in the morning of May 15 in Syntagma Square in...