AN OVERVIEW OF THE GREEK AN OVERVIEW OF THE GREEK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMEDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
October 2012
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Schools’ meeting in Finland
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Greek Educational System in a diagram (I)
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Greek Educational System in a diagram (II)
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Greek Educational System in a diagram (III)
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The following diagram outlines the structure of the Greek Educational System as established by institutions of formal, classified and unclassified education.
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Compulsory Education in Greece
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School’s Calendar
175 school days from the 11th of September to the 15th of June
During the last month of the school year (15 May – 15 June) pupils in
gymnasiums and lyceums take final exams
Schools are open 5 days a week for 35 weeks a year
Lessons from 8:15 to 14:05
23 to 35 lesson hours per week. Each hour lasts from 40 to 45
minutes. 10-minute breaks
Schools closes for the Christmas and Easter holidays. Also, they
close for summer holidays for approximately 2 months
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Curriculum in Primary and Lower Secondary schools
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Curriculum in Primary Schools
History Environmental Studies
Geography Religious issues
Science
Art English Social and Civic studies
Greek language
PE
ICT (some schools)
Second Foreign Lang.
Mathematics
Curriculum in Lower Secondary Schools
History Chemistry/Physics
Geography Religious issues
Biology
Home economics
ICT /Technology
Aesthetics(Music/Arts)
Foreign Lang.
PE
Ancient & Modern Greek
Civil and Social Studies
Geography Vocational Guidance
Mathematics
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Curriculum in General Lyceum - Exams
General Lyceum: general education subjects, such as Modern
and Ancient Greek language and literature, History, Mathematics,
Science, Religious issues, foreign languages, Informatics, Social
Sciences, Physical Education
Specialization subjects (Astronomy, etc.)
National examinations (they determine who will continue their
studies in universities and who will not)
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Technical Vocational Lyceum: not only general education
lessons (such as Greek language, math, foreign language etc), but
also lessons relevant to special vocations
Emphasis on the specific subjects students have chosen
National exams. Students either continue in higher education or
they take a job certificate relevant to the subject of their studies
(such as car mechanic, crafts man etc)
Curriculum in Technical Vocational Lyceum - Exams
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Administration of primary and secondary education
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The 13 Regions of Greece and the 52 prefectures Administration Chart
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Higher Education: Universities
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Universities and Higher Technological Institutes in several cities of Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Herakleion, Ioannina etc)
Greek Open University
University of Ioannina campusUniversity of Ioannina Library
Mathematics Department
Student’s Restaurant
In the entrance of University campusUniversity of Ioannina Logo
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Higher Education: Technical Educational Institutes
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Higher Technological Education's role is to contribute to the
development process in the country and progress of science and
applied research
The training is geared to assimilation and transfer of scientific data in
production
Studies at Technical Colleges compared with those at the universities
have more applied nature. In Greece there are 15 Colleges, which
consist of two (2) at least Faculties, which contain two or more
Sections
TEIs operating in various cities of the country, while some also have
independent branches, ie independent departments in another city
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