Education in France

An Education Ministry initiative to provide extra tuition to secondary students at Greek public schools so that they do not have to rely on private institutions is expected to start on Wednesday.

This academic year, the ministry will provide 19 additional tuition centers, up from last year's 421.

The courses will be available until May 31, when classes end.

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Turkey's Education Minister has given the authority to each governor's office in the country to determine school start time in the mornings on their own, asking them to take their province's specific climate and geographical conditions into account so that students can make more use of the daylight.

Turkey's Education Minister has given the authority to each local governor's office in the country to determine school start time in the mornings on their own, asking them to take their province's specific climate and geographical conditions into account so that students can make more use of the daylight.

The French Institute in Athens is hosting French philosopher Alain Badiou on Thursday, May 5, in a lecture titled "What Is Politics Today?" Badiou, formerly chair of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure, was also a founding member of the faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. The event starts at 7 p.m.

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin on Friday again commented on the issue of the Greek debt, saying the amount must be “re-evaluated” and pointing to October as the commencement of talks on the issue.

He also called on the Greek government to assume its responsibilities.

The planned 23% VAT hike to private educational institutions will reportedly be extended to include private schools sending rates exploding. A reportage in daily newspaper, Ethnos, states that parents who send their children to private schools will need to dig their hands deep into their pockets paying an additional 1,500 to 2,000 euros in tuition fees per annum.

By Maria Katsounaki

French Finance Minister Michel Sapin said on Thursday that, although the new Greek government has made progress in its reform plan, more needs to be done.

“There is progress with the last list … Is there a need for more progress? Yes – in the quantification of the measures,” Sapin told reporters in Paris.

Over a thousand students on Wednesday occupied the Skopje university faculties of Philosophy, Philology, Law and the Economy, proclaiming them an "autonomous students' territory".

Students demand the immediate suspension of a new Law on Higher Education, which has introduced mandatory externally supervised exams.