The gap between the ‘train’ and the ‘platform’

Let's agree that for years private education was demonized and that vested interests held public education hostage to the fixations of unions and civil servants. The decades that passed consolidated a specific reality in primary and high schools.

In the last few years there has been a growing activity in private education. The percentage of students turning in this direction shows a noticeable increase. Demand, on the other hand, mobilizes supply and attracts investments. Kathimerini has raised the issue many times, including in a story on Friday titled "Investors eye private school market." In its editorial, Kathimerini points out the need "to upgrade free education" before "another gap of inequality opens up between families who can (by scraping and saving) pay for better services and those who can't afford the ever-increasing school fees."

Giorgos Christopoulos,...