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Greek high school graduates could soon attend tuition-based, English-language programs at public universities if a proposal by University of Athens Rector Gerasimos Siasos gains traction.

The excitement accompanying the start of new school which this year starts on Wednesday is somewhat tempered by the permanent tug-of-war between the leadership of the Ministry of Education on the one hand, and the teachers and their trade union representatives on the other over lower wages and departmental mergers.

Graduates will be more competitive in international labour markets - Cooperation between higher education institutions in at least two Member States is necessary

The Education Ministry on Wednesday announced the minimum grades high school graduates will need to score in their final exams to enter university at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year. 

The minimum scores on the nationwide university entrance exams vary between departments.

More than one in four secondary school pupils is an A student. At least in theory.

The threshold of excellence, 18 out of 20 in the scale in use in Greek high schools, was attained by 179,580 students out of a total of 680,000 last academic year, Education Ministry data show.

Minimum admission scores for Greek universities were announced Thursday, allowing 61,950 out of the 97,205 who applied to secure a place.

Late last night, another 90,000 tests for COVID-19 for students arrived at the warehouse of the Bulgarian Red Cross (BRC), the Ministry of Education announced. Today they are distributed in schools. Thus, the shortage of tests for students from grades 1 to 12, who will return to class on December 6, has been reduced to 60,000.

Just to reiterate, the Ministry of Education issues a statement every Friday based on the epidemiological situation about which schools will attend classes next week and according to which model.

The pandemic of COVID-19 and the withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union (EU) have not reduced the interest of Bulgarian high school graduates in higher education abroad, a Dnevnik inspection showed before the new academic year starting today.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on May 31 it's not an isolated incident that over 200 children were found buried at a former Indigenous residential school.

Trudeau's comments come as Indigenous leaders are calling for an examination of every former residential school site, institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.