Academic transfer

A few dozen school pupils gathered in front of the Parliament in Athens on Monday to protest changes to the education system being planned by the leftist-led government. One of the most controversial changes is the Education Ministry's plan to scrap resits for students who fail to pass university entrance exams. [Yannis Kolesidis/ANA-MPA]

Teachers in Turkey fail to answer questions in their own education fields, according to statistics obtained from the Education Ministry that reviewed their performances in 2016. 

Defying grave security challenges and high-tension politics, thousands of European exchange students continue to live and study in Istanbul, although their numbers have almost halved since last year. 

Bulgaria has ranked low in terms of smart healthcare spending, recent data shows.

An infographic using figures by the Economist intelligence unit's Healthcare Outcomes Index 2014, prepared by MEDIGO, shows Bulgaria, Slovakia, Denmark, Estonia and Latvia are evaluated at 3 out of 9 (1 is "poor", 5 "satisfactory", 10 "excellent").

Three masked persons armed with what turned out to be a plastic pistol and a knife on Tuesday stormed an elementary school in Belgrade's Kotez neighborhood.

They disrupted a 7th grade class and threatened the teacher with the weapons, snatching the gradebook from her.

By Maria Katsounaki

The Turkish National Agency has pledged to continue the Erasmus exchange student program

Over the past few days I am sure you’ve seen in many newspapers, including daily Hurriyet, about the results of the new Transition from Primary to Secondary Education (TEOG) exams.

The issue of whether or not students should be allowed to transfer to any university they would prefer to the one they entered via national exams is extremely complicated.

59.25 percent of high-school graduates have passed the Baccalaureate exams in the June-July session, according to data centralized by the Ministry of National Education (MEN) before grade appeals were filed, remitted to the public on Monday.

According to the ministry, the result is four percent higher than that of the same period of last year (54.4 percent).