Cramming

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More than 120,000 university graduates are waiting to be appointed to teaching positions in public primary and secondary schools, and it will not happen anytime soon.

Education experts are hailing the advent of online cramming schools in Greece as an educational El Dorado, given that some are even paid up 1,200 euros from countries of the Middle East.

Two digital platforms currently operate in Greece. The company with the largest market share is GoStudent.

Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias on Tuesday announced the closure of all schools and universities to close for 14 days as part of efforts to contain spread of coronavirus. 

The decision relates to all state and public schools, kindergartens and universities, Kikilas said, adding that the measure is preventive and aimed at reducing the spread of the virus. 

The new school year started this week. The youngsters are anxious but happy, while their parents are mostly frustrated. They know that the struggle related to extracurricular lessons, which range from basic skills such as foreign languages to more sophisticated knowledge, is about to start and will intensify through the last years of elementary school.

January was a good month for the team behind Greek startup Face Traveller. At least it was until their troubles with Facebook began. Up until that day, their efforts seemed to have started paying off.

A professor who worked at the Technical College (TEI) of Serres and a suspected accomplice who owns a private cramming school in the same city in northern Greece were jailed pending trial on charges of bribery and blackmail on Friday.

A college professor and two suspected accomplices at a private cramming school have been arrested in northern Greece by the police's Internal Affairs Division for allegedly running an academic racket.

There was nothing in the latest report from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) regarding Greek education that came as a surprise, that we didn't know from personal experience or has been widely debated for years on end.

The 106 students at Patra University's Department of Business Administration who were caught cheating after submitting the exact same paper are nothing but products of the Greek education system.