High school

Turkey’s Minister of National Education Nabi Avcı plays down the worry of chaos amid reports that thousands of students were placed in schools against their will following the TEOG exam results Turkey’s education minister has sought to downplay the catastrophic ongoing situation in Turkey’s secondary education system, after a large number of students were controversially placed in

The massive rise in the number of imam-hatip religious schools in the last four years shows how the AKP has been championing a more conservative education system, according to education reformer Batuhan Aydagül.

One-third of Bulgarian high school graduates with top marks at the closing exams would prefer to study at foreign universities, Novinite.bg has reported.

According to Education Ministry data, more than 12,000 Bulgarian high-school graduates coming mostly from top-notch schools in the country would begin university studies abroad next year.

After my column about the transforming of the regular teachers’ high school in the inner Aegean city of Afyon into a girls’ imam-preacher high school (the religious vocational high schools), readers’ mails poured in. Here is some of them:

By Maria Katsounaki

Greeks tend to have ambivalent feelings toward excellence. They all acknowledge its importance and lavish it with praise. After all, excellence is considered the engine of growth and innovation, and a major education booster.

By Alexandra Skaraki

A school on Crete that provides the rare service of catering to both local and foreign pupils is facing the risk of closure following an inspectors' report which highlighted problems such as low student registrations, staff shortages and especially in terms of infrastructure. A campaign to save the institution is now in full swing.

For over a century, IONIOS SCHOOL has offered a qualitative educational system in Greek and has contributed significantly to creating values. It is no coincidence that the school has educated numerous Greek personalities who have excelled in all branches of science, art, literature and entrepreneurship.

The head of the secondary school teachers’ union OLME, Themis Kotsifakis, has told Kathimerini that he is concerned that authorities are coming down too hard on pupils after it emerged that 21 youngsters who took part in sit-in protests are to go on trial in April.