Dormitory

Air conditioners are non-existent or poorly maintained at student halls of residence in Athens, residents have told the relevant authorities.

Students have requested the Institute for Youth and Lifelong Learning and the Ministry of Education to ensure that proper air-conditioning systems are installed in the residencies.

As applications are now open for Youth and Sports Ministry-affiliated university dormitories, a digital assessment by 12 public institutions will take precedence, with special consideration granted to students affected by recent earthquakes.

Rental pressures are forcing people to switch from sharing apartments, a common practice among university students, to sharing rooms, just like in dormitories, with sometimes up to eight people struggling to accommodate in a single room.

In response to the soaring demand, in recent weeks, room-sharing listings have started to come to the fore on rental platforms online.

New dormitories will be constructed in the southern provinces affected by the Feb. 6 earthquakes, and the damaged dormitories will be renovated for use in the upcoming academic term, Youth and Sports Minister Osman Aşkın Bak has announced.

Within the scope of the Youth and Sports Ministry's "Travel Enthusiast" project, young people can now take advantage of free accommodation in dorms as they explore the historical and natural sites of the country.

The Turkish Education Ministry on Jan. 20 announced that face-to-face education at private coaching centers will start as of late January.

There was a shooting in the dormitories of the campus of Texas A&M University in Commerce 80 miles from Dallas, Reuters reports.

All classes of 12,000 students in this Texas A&M branch were canceled.

Students, faculty and staff were instructed to take shelter and stay in place until further notice. This was a precautionary measure.

For the first time since 2008, BGN 29.4 million was granted in 2019 for the renovation of the student dorms in the country, after such funds were not allocated for such a long period. This was said by Yana Vangelova, chairman of the National Student Councils (NSSC) at the universities.

The senate of Van Yüzüncü Yıl University in the eastern province of Van has decided that one academic will dine with students every day after dozens of students living in a dormitory suffered from food poisoning last week.

We shouldn't really be surprised at the sorry state of dorms for students at universities and technical colleges around the country.

After all, their dirty, anarchic state is an eloquent illustration of the chaos, disorder and abandonment that characterizes the facilities of so many higher education institutes in Greece.