National Authority for Higher Education

The Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens has been certified by the National Authority for Higher Education (NAHE) with the highest score across all seven individual quality criteria.

A big bang in the secondary, tertiary and post-secondary education sectors is being pursued by the government.

Though admission to higher education is a life goal for tens of thousands of young people and their families, the road proves challenging for many. Some students prolong their studies, while others abandon them altogether.

Foreign students in Greece will be able to study Accounting and Finance in Thessaloniki as of this October, when the first exclusively English-language undergraduate study program of the University of Macedonia begins.

The number of postgraduate programs and the number of students in Greece is rising. According to the data, the economic crisis that the country went through in the previous decade appears to have been a milestone for the increase in postgraduate studies. 

In 2010, 31,071 students were studying in the postgraduate programs of Greek universities.

Only one in five students at Greek universities complete their studies within the minimum time of study, while most take almost six years to complete a four-year program, which is the shortest possible duration of an undergraduate program, according to a report by the National Authority for Higher Education.

The National Authority for Higher Education will be the final arbiter of whether private institutions of higher education select their students on the basis of criteria that meet a minimum level of knowledge.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in Parliament on Thursday the government's intention to institutionalize non-state universities through inter-state agreements. Mitsotakis said this will be done with the reforming of the relevant Article 16 of the Constitution.

Greece has the oldest university lecturers in Europe and the fewest aged under 35, according to a recent report by the National Authority for Higher Education (EThAAE). More specifically, of the 17,049 permanent lecturers at Greek universities, more than half are over 50.