Education Ministry

The Government in the meeting on Thursday will debate two ordinance drafts on the revision of the state budget and the state social insurance budget for 2014, as well as several resolution drafts aimed at earmarking emergency aids and funds for the counties affected by flooding in this period, the Government's Press Office informs.

The Education Ministry has been somewhat unfortunate over the past two years.

Other than the myriad problems they have already faced, the politicians who have been appointed to run it continue to shy away from implementing an ambitious reform program that was approved by Parliament with overwhelming support last year and is aimed at a complete overhaul of the system.

University authorities warned on Friday that their institutions would not be in a position to fulfill their role after the Education Ministry demanded that they make further cuts to their budget.

The Education Ministry is to present plans on Monday for teaching Chinese to Greek schoolchildren.

Chinese is already being taught to pupils at model experimental high schools in association with the Chinese Embassy and the Confucius Institute.

This program is set to be expanded.

Turkey’s authorities have launched a new plan of action against the spread of drugs such as the synthetic “bonzai.” 

BELGRADE - Serbia marked the National Science Day and the anniversary of the birth of Nikola Tesla with numerous events, panels, programs and meetings on Thursday.

The inauguration of a school teaching Chinese and the ceremony awarding the "Chinese Dream" scholarships, on its second edition, brought together on Saturday at the Bucharest-based St.

The coming week will be crucial for the country’s universities as a number of key issues are expected to be settled ahead of elections for rectors in July.

The Education Ministry’s Centre for Checking Diplomas will be given powers to verify all new state officials’ diplomas under the planned legislative changes, BIRN has learned from a ministry source.

"The idea is that the Centre prevents people with fake diplomas from working in state institutions in the future," the source said.

Members of the secondary school teachers’ union (OLME) were on Monday holding a protest outside the Education Ministry in the northern Athens suburb of Maroussi against a so-called mobility scheme of forced transfers and layoffs.

A delegation was expected to meet with newly-appointed Education Minister Andreas Loverdos to discuss the issue later in the day.