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Greece is taking a great interest in the ongoing deliberations at the annual session of China's National People's Congress (NPC), as the decisions made in Beijing this March will have a deep global impact, a member of the Greek Parliament told Xinhua in a written interview recently.

A group of outraged Greek citizens started verbally assaulting the two SYRIZA MPs, Tasos Kourakis and Triantafyllos Mitafidis who visited the city’s market as heads of a party delegation. ‘Lazy dogs, you destroyed us’, were some the phrases hurled against the two MPs.

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras managed to secure an appointment for his wife, Peristera Baziana, just a day prior to his resignation as prime minister reports Demokratia newspaper. His wife was appointed as a technology teacher.

The Ministry of Education is opposed to conducting the trail of extreme fascist Golden Dawn party members in a specially created courtroom at high-security korydallos Prison. Ministry officials believe that this would disrupt the smooth operation of nationwide university entrance exams for students from the 11 schools and two examination centers in the area.

Alternate Education Minister Tasos Kourakis announced the education ministry's initiatives to address instances of bullying. He said the ministry will make use of funds from the National Strategic Reference Framework to train 16,500 teachers so as to be able to deal with such cases.

The Education Ministry issued a statement on Saturday denying that it aims to scrap the hiring process for secondary education teachers via the Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP).

By Maria Katsounaki

Why should excellence be perceived as some kind of stigma or twisted ambition?

Let?s leave aside the contradictory announcements made by the Education Ministry regarding model experimental schools and take a closer look at the meaning of certain words.

Greece's Education Ministry plans to scrap an art history schoolbook which was recently criticized of misrepresenting the history of the the 5th-century B.C. Parthenon Marbles, now housed in the British Museum.