Education Ministry

The Onassis Foundation has offered to step in and provide the money needed for Greek students to take part in academic competitions after the government said it would no longer be able to provide the 50,000 euros needed for the trips to take place.

Kavala Mayor Dimitra Tsanaka has come under fire after stopping the unveiling of a memorial to the city?s 1,484 Jews that were killed by Nazi troops, because it featured the Star of David.

By Maria Katsounaki

Weeks after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an claimed that Obamacare was inspired by Turkey, the country?s Education Ministry has claimed that a Japanese minister looked at Ankara?s education system with ?envy? and used it as a model.

The Council of State has refused an appeal for a stay of execution of an Education Ministry circular allowing the wearing of headscarves at secondary schools in Turkey. 

Some ten thousand pupils and students on Thursday demanded the resignation of Macedonia's Education Minister, Abdualaqim Ademi, and a halt to externally controlled state-run graduation exams.

University academics are to mount a campaign aimed at preventing the government from passing the reforms it has planned for tertiary education.

Turkish officials have launched a probe after a teacher posed for a photo with her students who made a snowwoman that ?violates social values,? Turkish media reported April 7.

The boycott began on Monday in a bid to stop plans for the externally-controlled exams that are intended to check high school pupils' skills and evaluate whether teachers have done their jobs properly.

The movement organising the boycott, High School Plenum, said it would continue the boycott for as long as the Education Ministry turns a deaf ear to its demands.

A proposal will soon be presented to the Education Ministry for programming classes to be entered into the elementary school curriculum, Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri I??k has said.