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European universities. The Greek government is pressured to recognise these overseas programmes.
All levels of education are catered for by both private
and public schools. State-run schools and universities
do not charge tuition fees and textbooks are provided
free to all students, although, from 2011 onwards, there
has been noticed a shortage in new textbooks, forcing
students to either buy stock books from bookshops, or
participate in parent-teacher association-run book trades.
There are also a number of private tutors schools, colleges and universities operating alongside the state education and providing supplementary tuition. These parallel schools (Greek: , frontistirio (singular))
provide foreign language tuition, supplementary lessons
for weak students as well as exam preparation courses for
the competitive Panhellenic national examinations. Most
of the students typically attend such classes (and examinations) at the tutors schools in the afternoon and evening
in addition to their normal schooling.
1 Primary education
SECONDARY EDUCATION
Year 2 ( ): age 7 to 8
Year 3 ( ): age 8 to 9
Year 4 ( ): age 9 to 10
Year 5 ( ): age 10 to 11
Year 6 ( ): age 11 to 12
Social & Political Studies (1 hours/week and only (Gymnasium - Middle School) (compulsory
for years 5 and 6)
education)
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Modern Greek Literature (2 hours/week)
Ancient Greek Language (3 hours/week)
Ancient Greek Literature (2 hours/week)
Mathematics (4 hours/week) (Algebra 2 hours/week
and Geometry 2 hours/week)
Physics (1 hour/week)
Biology (2 hours/week)
Geography (2 hours/week)
History (2 hours/week)
View of the Jewish school, Thessaloniki
Technology (1 hour/week)
French or German (2
1. General Gymnasium (entering there from the pri2. /2nd Grade of Gymnasium (The
mary school is automatic)
curriculum is based on the 2013 curriculum, for the
2. Athletic Gymnasium (to enter this type of school school season 2014-2015):
students must pass certain exams on a sport like football, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, polo, swim Modern Greek Language (2 hours/week)
ming etc.)
Modern Greek Literature (2 hours/week)
3. Musical Gymnasium (to enter this type of school
Ancient Greek Language (3 hours/week)
students must pass certain exams on a musical instrument)
Ancient Greek Literature (2 hours/week)
4. Art Gymnasium
Mathematics (4 hours/week)
Physics (2 hours/week)
6. Church Gymnasium
Geography (2 hours/week)
Chemistry (1 hour/week)
Biology (1 hour/week)
History (2 hours/week)
French or German (2
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Technology (1 hour/week)
Computer Studies (1 hour/week)
Music (1 hour/week)
Art (1 hour/week)
Physical Education (2 hours/week)
Home Economics (1 hour/week)
SECONDARY EDUCATION
On September 2013, the Minister of Education, Lifelong learning and Religious aairs Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos ocially announced the historic recreation of
the General Lyceum. On September 12, 2013 the new
system was introduced to the new students of the 1st
grade of General Lyceum.
The subjects for:
1. /1st Grade of General
Lyceum (The curriculum is based on the 2013 curriculum, for the school season 2014-2015):
Project (1 hour/week)
Subjects of General Education
3. /3rd Grade of Gymnasium (The curriculum is based on the 2009 curriculum, for the school Ancient Greek (5 hours/week) Modern Greek Language
season 2014-2015):
(2 hours/week) Modern Greek Literature (2 hours/week)
Algebra (3 hours/week) Geometry (2 hours/week)
Physics (2 hours/week) Chemistry (2 hours/week) Bi Religion Education (2 hours/week)
ology (2 hours/week) History (2 hours/week) Polit Ancient Greek Literature (2 hours/week)
ical Studies (3 hours/week) Religion Education (2
hours/week) Project (2 hours/week) Foreign Language:
Ancient Greek Language (3 hours/week)
English or French or German (2 hours/week) Physical
Education (2 hours/week)
Modern Greek Language (2 hours/week)
Modern Greek Literature (2 hours/week)
History (3 hours/week)
Social & Political Studies (2 hours/week)
English Language (2 hours/week)
2nd Foreign Language:
hours/week)
French or German (2
Mathematics (4 hours/week)
Physics (2 hours/week)
Chemistry (1 hour/week)
Biology (2 hours/week)
Physical Education (2 hours/week)
Music (1 hour/week)
Art (1 hour/week)
Computer Studies (1 hour/week)
Scholastic Vocational Guidance (1 hour/week)
(General Lyceum - High School)
/ 1st grade, age 15 to 16
/ 2nd grade, age 16 to 17
/ 3rd grade, age 17 to 18
Subjects of selection
Applications of Computer Science (2 hours/week)
Geology and Management of Natural Resources (2
hours/week) Greek and European Culture (2 hours/week)
Art Education (2 hours/week)
2. /2nd Grade of General
Lyceum (The curriculum is based on the 2013 curriculum, for the school season 2014-2015):
Subjects of General Education
Ancient Greek (2 hour/week) Modern Greek Language
(2 hours/week) Modern Greek Literature (2 hours/week)
Algebra (3 hours/week) Geometry (2 hours/week)
Physics (2 hours/week) Chemistry (2 hours/week) Biology (2 hours/week) Introduction to the Principles
of Science of Computers (1 hour/week) History (2
hours/week) Philosophy (2 hours/week) Political Education (2 hours/week) Religion Education (2 hours/week)
Project (1 hour/week) Foreign Language: English or
French or German (2 hours/week) Physical Education (1
hour/week)
The students can choose 1 of the 2 Orientation Groups:
the Humanities or the Sciences
Subjects of the Humanities Orientation Group
Ancient Greek Language and Literature (3 hours/week)
Basic Principles of Social Science (2 hours/week)
Subjects of the Sciences Orientation Group
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Physics (3 hours/week) Mathematics (2 hours/week)
Tertiary education.These exams are held after the stu3. /3rd Grade of General dents have received their Apolytirion (the main schoolLyceum (The curriculum is based on the 2013 curricu- leaving certicate for secondary education).The students
pass into a specic Higher Educational Institute based on
lum, for the school season 2014-2015):
the Orientation and Group chosen.
Subjects of General Education
Religion Education (1 hour/week) Foreign Language:
English or French or German (2 hours/week) Physical
Education (1 hour/week) History (2 hours/week) Greek
Language (4 hours/week Modern Greek Language, 2
hours/week Modern Greek Literature)
3 Private schools
4 SCHOOL ELECTIONS
School elections
From the fth year of the primary school to the third year
of Lyceum elections are held.
Elections in primary schools
They are held every September, all the students are
obliged to elect 2 presidiums for each class who rule
until January when the other one succeeds the rst. The
role of these presidiums is to primp the classrooms for
the national holidays and for Christmas. Furthermore,
they transfer the complaints of each student to the school
authorities.
There are 4 positions:
The President
The Vice-President
The General Secretary
The Treasurer
Elections in Gymnasiums and Lyceums
They are held every September and they are also divided
in 2 parts.
In the 1st part every student elects the Presidium of
his/her class.
The Class Presidium has 5 members:
The President
The General Secretary
The Treasurer
The 1st Member
The 2nd Member
In the second part students elect a School Council which
has 15 members and represents the students. Its role is
extremely important in every school because the School
Council takes signicant decisions for all the students.
The School Council has 15 members:
The School President
The Vice-President
The Treasurer
Another 12 Members
Higher Educational Institutes are consisted of two parallel sectors: the Universities and the Technological Educational Institutes (T.E.I.). In addition, colleges collaborating with foreign universities can oer undergraduate and
postgraduate UK foreign programmes of study in Greece,
under the proper registration with the Greek Ministry of
Education. Usually, these programmes are provided following franchise or validation agreements with universities established in other European Union countries, primarily in the UK, leading to degrees which are awarded
directly by those universities. In some cases these institutions are wholly owned and operated branch campuses
of foreign institutions, as in the case of the University
of Indianapolis, Athens Campus. List of universities in
Greece
ternational Programmes and UCLan, I.S.T. Col (Institouto Epagelmatikis Katartilege/University of Hertfordshire, New York College
sis - Vocational Training Institute). O.E.E.K. is
(European and American Education), BCA Busithe government organization which oversees these
ness College of Athens, ALBA Graduate Business
institutes.
School, University of Wales, Bangor, Mediterranean
College, Deree College, Athens Information Tech Private EES schools often oer seminars and 1-year
nology Center of Excellence for Research and Eduvocational programmes, usually for Computing or
cation etc.
Business studies. Young Greeks can seek private
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SEE ALSO
vocational education using the computer software Many students and parents claim that Greek schools role
products Eurofasma and Kefaleo (Capital).
is not to improve their knowledge and abilities.
In Greece, students often have complaints about the
teaching and grading system of their teachers. There
are heard occasions, for example, of teachers who give
8 Obsolete institutions
lower/higher marks to a student than they should have,
, based on their personal eort and achievements at the
(Techniko Epagelmatiko Ekpedeftirio - lesson. The Education System is believed to follow a too
'democratic' view on such incidents, ignoring such issues.
Technical Professional/Vocational School, TEE)
Another important issue which is causing disturbance
, (Tech- in many Greek families is the existence of paid private
niko Epagelmatiko Lykeio - Technical Profes- classes named frontistiria () whose attensional/Vocational Lyceum, TEL)
dance by the Greek students has become a necessity in
order for them to be able to achieve high grades and suc , (Techceed in their exams. This is a phenomenon noticed esniki Epagelmatiki Scholi - Technical Profespecially as the student approaches the 3rd grade of upper
sional/Vocational School, TES)
high school because of the high diculty of the Panhel , (Eniaio lenic Examinations and has been an object of criticism
Polykladiko Lykeio - Unied Multidisciplinary due to the high fees that most Greek families are called
to pay, thus deviating from the concept of a free and
Lyceum, EPL)
accessible from everyone education.[3] Furthermore, in
2012 the Greek government introduced a regulation that
changed the regime which the selection of the students
9 Current issues
who wished to be registered in the Experimental Schools
was done with. Before 2012, those students were picked
The foremost topic of debate in recent years has been from a lottery, whereas the regulation established a sysrecognition of the private universities, which are for- tem of entrance exams for Experimental Schools which
bidden by the 1975 constitution. Numerous private in- occurred in the 1st grade of lower and upper high school
stitutions, which are often franchises of European and that the students had to pass in order to be selected. This
American universities, such as State University of New incident reinforced the presence of frontistiria, as some
York, but also non-prot accredited institutions or wholly parents started sending their children there, even while
owned and operated branch campuses of foreign universi- at primary-age, so as to prepare them for the entrance
ties, such as the University of Indianapolis - Athens Cam- exams. The regulation also renamed the Experimental
pus, are operating legally as EES schools (translatable as Schools to Exemplar Experimental Schools.
Laboratories of Free Study).
In addition, there have been repeatedly heard protests
Moreover, with few exceptions, the Greek government
refuses to recognize three-year university degrees. Students who completed a bachelors degree in a foreign
country nd it dicult to secure employment in the public sector, unless they next obtain a masters degree, in
which case their academic qualications are considered
equivalent to a four-year undergraduate degree conferred
by a Greek higher educational institute.
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Criticism
There can be heard and seen lots of facts that show peoples disappointment by the Greek Education System.
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, ,
2003. (ISBN 960-541-108-3) (accessed June
1, 2006)
Greek Educational System: The Implementation of
the ICT in the Greek Curriculum in Compulsory Education, IACM/FORTH, November 2003
National report of Greece 2009 - Bologna Process:
http://www.ond.vlaanderen.be/hogeronderwijs/
bologna/links/Greece.htm
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References
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External links
Information on education in Greece, OECD - Contains indicators and information about Greece and
how it compares to other OECD and non-OECD
countries
Diagram of Greek education system, OECD - Using 1997 ISCED classication of programmes and
typical ages. Also in Greek
Education in Greece, webdossier by Education
Worldwide, a portal of the German Education
Server
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