GREEK EDUCATION SYSTEM

EUCHI 2019-2022: EUROPEAN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND IDENTITY

ERASMUS+ KA229

GREECE – SPAIN – ROMANIA – ITALY

2^ND MOBILITY SPAIN -23 /11/2021

The Structure of the Greek Education System

Statistics on Educational Institutions

https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/statistics-organisation-and-governance

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Key features of the Greek education system

• The Greek educational system is centralised.  National laws, presidential decrees and ministerial acts are prevalent within it.
• Central level
• At central level the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs is the main administrative body for the education system across all fields, agencies and levels. It takes the key decisions related to long-term objectives.  It also regulates various issues, such as curricula content, staff recruitment and funding.
• Regional and local levels
• At regional level, the regional education directorates oversee the implementation of the national educational policy.
• At local level, the directorates of primary and secondary education supervise all schools in their area. 
• At school level, school units, in their turn, make sure they run smoothly.

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https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/default/files/document-library-docs/et-monitor-report-2019-greece_en.pdf

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Teachers�

• Educational officials of the country are higher education graduates.
• The main route into teaching in primary schools is to take a 4-year degree in a pedagogical department.
• In secondary schools, most teachers follow a 4 or 5-year subject-based degree at a teacher education faculty.
• The average age of the secondary school teachers is above 50 years.
• This year there have been new appointments of teachers after 11 years due to recession.

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• https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/greece_en

School Units�

The capacity of each school unit is around 300 students.

Every grade consists of one or more classes depending on the number of students enrolled.

Each class consists of 25-27 students.

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Organisation of General Upper Secondary Education

• Types of institutions
• • Day upper secondary schools
• • Evening upper secondary schools
• • Model and experimental upper secondary schools
• • Music Schools
• • Art schools
• • General ecclesiastical upper secondary schools
• • Upper secondary schools of special education and training (ΕΑΕ)
• • Minority upper secondary schools 
• • Seminaries
• • Intercultural education upper secondary schools

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https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/organisation-general-upper-secondary-education-23_en

Upper Secondary General Education and Groups of direction

•  1^st grade: Classes of general education (35 hours per week)
• 2^nd grade: Classes of general education (30 hours per week) and 2 groups of
• direction: Humanitarian Studies and Sciences (5 hours per week)
• 3^rd grade: Classes of general education (14 hours per week)
• 4 groups of direction : Humanitarian Studies, Sciences, Health
• Studies, Economics and Informatics (18 hours per week)

Teaching and Learning in Vocational Upper Secondary Education

• Apart from General Education Subjects students are taught Specialisation Subjects
•  9 sectors are set up for EPAL:
• Sector of Agriculture, Food and Environment
• Sector of Economics and Management
• Sector of Construction Works, Built Environment and Architectural Design
• Sector of Applied Arts
• Sector of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Automation
• Sector of Mechanical Engineering
• Sector of Maritime Occupations
• Sector of ICT
• Sector of Health - Welfare - Well-being

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https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/national-policies/eurydice/content/teaching-and-learning-vocational-upper-secondary-education-22_en

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Organisation of the school day and week

Organisation of the school year

• The teaching year in general lykeio is divided in two terms:
• The first term: September 11 September to 20 January.
• The second term: 21 January until the final week of May.
• Only 2 holiday periods: at Christmas and at Easter (15 days each)
• The exam period, which includes written progression and school leaving certificate exams, follows right at the end of classes of the second term (exam period May-June), as well as the period of 1 September until the start of classes, when this is foreseen.
• The students of the final year sit for their University Entrance Exams in June.

Compulsory Education in Europe

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication

PISA 2018 results among 48 countries (OECD 2018)

https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/default/files/document-library-docs/et-monitor-report-2019-greece_en.pdf

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COMPARATIVE DATA (PISA 2018)

GREECE ITALY ROMANIA SPAIN

https://gpseducation.oecd.org/CountryProfile?primaryCountry=GRC&treshold=5&topic=PI

PISA 2018 Results in Reading:

OECD average

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PISA 2018 Results in Maths:

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PISA 2018 Results in Science:

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PISA 2018 Index of economic, social and cultural status:

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PISA 2018 Results in Student’s life satisfaction:

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PISA 2018 Results in Financial Literacy:

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PISA 2018 – Students’ awaremess pf global issues:

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PISA 2018 - Students repeating a grade:

OECD average

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https://ec.europa.eu/education/sites/default/files/document-library-docs/et-monitor-report-2019-greece_en.pdf

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