Education Ministry

The Education Ministry is expected to present its assessment over the coming days of a government initiative to enroll child refugees at state schools, Kathimerini understands.

Around 2,500 refugees are attending classes at a total of 115 schools across the country, according to current estimates.

The number of Syrian children at education age in Turkey has reached nearly one million, according to the head of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), Mehmet Halis Bilden. 

The 21st Aydın Doğan Award has been granted to Turkish contemporary painter Neş'e Erdok, according to the Aydın Doğan Foundation.

The award, which has been issued since the establishment of the foundation in 1996, aims to encourage and reward individuals who have committed their careers to contributing to humanity in the fields of arts, science and culture.  

Education and Science Minister Nikolay Denkov on Monday unveiled an interdepatmental Plan for Agression Prevention and Better Security at the education institutions.

Denkov said ''We can expect that school aggression will end when becomes a fact in society. This, however, will not take place very soon, so we must take measures.''

Turkey's Labor and Social Security Ministry has dubbed 2018 as the year "to fight child labor" and prepared an action plan that includes several key measures, from tighter controls in child labor intensive sectors to closer examination to schools' student attendance records, in a bid to achieve this goal. 

Teachers are seen holding a rally outside the Education Ministry in Maroussi, northern Athens, Tuesday to protest a government amendment that freezes the hiring of substitute staff for the next two academic years. Teachers were planning to gather outside Parliament in the center of the capital Wednesday at 1 p.m. as deputies vote on the bill in question.

On the last day of March the Greek Cypriot House of Representatives will vote on a draft sponsored by the ruling Democratic Rally Party (DISI) to authorize the Education Ministry to decide on the days to be marked in secondary schools. The draft, which cleared the education committee last week, aims at leaving behind a controversy over a recent law that ordered the commemoration of a 1950 plebi

Caretaker Minister of Education and Science Nikolay Denkov is going to visit Brussels on Tuesday over problems surrounding EU funding for education and science, announced from BNR.

Denkov is scheduled to meet with Carlos Moedas, EU Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation.

A dispute between the Church of Greece and the government, which began last September when new teaching material for religion classes was distributed to schools, is continuing to cause problems in the relationship between the institutions.

Some 56 percent of dormitory buildings in Istanbul are inconvenient, a parliamentary commission, which was set up after a dormitory fire on Nov. 29, 2016 in the southern province of Adana's Aladağ district killed 12 people, said March 9, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.