Education chiefs being appointed to nonexistent departments

With next year's elections around the corner, the Ministry of Education has already appointed SYRIZA-affiliated officials to many key positions in departments that essentially do not exist.

More specifically, even though the planned operation of the Consulting and Support Centers (KESY) - as stipulated in recent legislation - has yet to be given the go-ahead, they have already been staffed with department bosses.

The recent legislation envisaged that these consulting centers would be set up through the merger of Specialized Diagnostic Centers, Youth Counseling Centers and Vocational Guidance Offices and Centers.

Furthermore, the new law states that the Consulting and Support Centers can only be set up after the minister of education approves the merger - something which the incumbent Costas Gavroglou has yet to do.

Instead, the ministry allowed 13 outgoing...