Knowledge

A global study conduced by Ipsos Mori reveals which the most ignorant countries in the world are. The supposedly most ignorant places in the world have been named based on a survey of people’s knowledge about their own country. The 2016 “Index of Ignorance” includes information from 27,250 interviews of people aged 16 to 64 carried out between September and November.

Hostwriter and its Armenian partner Youth Alliance via Networking offer ten journalists the chance to cover European topics from a cross-border perspective. With elections coming up in several European countries, overcoming national bias and prejudice is crucial to serve a well informed civil society.

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s (AUTH) Department of Classics launched a collaboration with Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece (CHS) for research fellows.

At the court hearing in the so-called 'Fortress' case on Tuesday in Skopje, the Special Prosecution, SJO said that the Macedonian Secret Police, the UBK, was protecting its employees by refusing to allow the declassification of data so it can be used as evidence against them.

Anastasia Poulou, 28, received one of the nine awards issued by the German Korber Foundation for her doctoral dissertation on the theme of “Who is responsible for the shrinking of social services in Europe”.

Come next Sunday, all of Europe will be thrust into a swirl of electoral developments whose results and consequences are far from predictable.

What's worse than reforms which never take place are those that are actually approved, implemented and then abolished after a short period of time.

An example of this is a system of school facilities and teaching staff evaluations that stopped in 2015.

The European Commission released its “Education and Training Monitor 2016” report, which among other things, notes that Greeks have poorer digital skills compared to the EU average, while there has been a reversal on tertiary education autonomy.

Philosopher and Professor İonna Kuçuradi is the Writer of Honor of this year's TÜYAP Book Fair in Istanbul. Information on Kuçuradi's life and work is presented in the special related book prepared by Faruk Şüyün. The book is formed as a series of questions and answers, and is titled: "In Pursuit of Human Values - Persistently and with Hope - İonna Kuçuradi."

Skyrocketing demand for tarot card, coffee cup and tea leaf readers; communities dealing with drought by holding religious litanies; the private lives of judges revealed to all and sundry; anti-establishment groups hailing themselves as the "Sword of Damocles" and staging "symbolic" - to use their term - attacks against public buildings; the general sense of repugnance for all things learned an