Youth

A total of 178,458 people have failed to complete their tertiary education studies but are still registered as students, the Education Ministry said on Friday.

According to the ministry, 139,175 students are registered at the country’s universities. Of these, 129,008 are to be immediately scrubbed from the registers.

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.

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.

Finally, something seems to be changing at Greece’s universities as esteemed and capable academics, who respect the institutions they serve and the students under their wings, have thrown their hats into the election race for the top administrative positions in the tertiary education sector.

The Cyber Crimes Unit of the Greek Police revealed on Tuesday it provided information that helped avert a possible suicide.

Officers said that they traced the whereabouts of a Facebook user in Greece after the person posted on the social networking site that they were intending to take their own life.

Officers notified local police, who rang the person’s family.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Protector of Citizens Sasa Jankovic met on Tuesday with the representatives of the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) and expressed his support to the organization's efforts aimed at combating discrimination against LGBT persons and strongly condemned the death threats against its activists.