Kerameos: Before the 15th of August the bases of the Panhellenic Games – What changes in the new year in all-day and universities

The Minister of Education spoke about the Education bill, the university police, the all-day schools, the appointments of permanent teachers but also the school year 2022-2023, Niki Kerameosspeaking to ERT and Dimitris Kottaridis.

Referring in more detail to the school year that is coming to an end, she stressed that “The grades were announced even earlier than expected. The same is the goal to be done with the results of the bases where an attempt is made to announce and before 15 August».

He also referred to the goal of the Minimum Admission Base, stressing that “after three years and a series of actions by the ministry” efforts have been made to change such a large percentage of points below the base.

“The solution comes from the kindergarten, from all the years of education. That is why, for example, we insisted on having a kindergarten from the age of 4, we emphasize the skills, we change the books, we put the evaluation “he stressed and added that” A series of initiatives aimed at how to upgrade the quality of education “.

In fact, Ms. Kerameos underlined that “We drew up an educational policy without having measurable data. From this year we apply the Greek pisa where we do them We record and evaluate what is the situation in the educational system, what are the margins for improvement. We are going with targeted actions to improve the overall education system of the country “.

For school hours

“We have announced and the expansion of the all-day school from 16:00, which is today until 17:30, is being implemented. This measure for two reasons. “First of all, to provide quality public education to children until 17:30 and secondly, it is an important way to remove the barriers for parents to access the labor market, that is, to bring school hours closer to the working parents’ hours,” he noted. Mrs. Kerameos regarding the school hours.

He added that “access to the full day will be free, there will be no conditions for student enrollment, the measure is optional, the student will be able to leave earlier and generally according to the wishes of the parents” and added that “The extension This measure will apply to 50% of all-day schools across the country, ie about 5,000 departments. “

A total of 25,000 new teachers

“For 12 years the Greek State had not appointed a single teacher” said Niki Kermeos and added that “in the last two years we have already appointed 16,200 teachers and we are launching the appointment of another 8,600 teachers in the summer. This means that the school year, in September, will find us in total after 2 years with 25,000 additional permanent teachers “.

“We will be in the best position in relation to the balance of human resources” and stressed that “despite the adverse conditions, despite the pandemic, it is a conscious choice of Kyriakos Mitsotakis to invest in human resources because reforms are nice, but if you do not invest in human resources first education potential everything else comes second “.

Bill for universities

“We are incorporating proposals and the plan is to vote in July,” the minister said, referring to the bill on universities, adding: “It is an extensive bill because it is a complete framework law for universities. We found provisions that existed even from 1930, there were provisions that spoke of the King and were still in force. We now offer a complete codified framework law for universities, to have legal certainty with this law giving a lot of possibilities to universities “. Such as:

• Erasmus interior, student mobility, open horizons, more performances
• dual and joint degrees, interdisciplinarity in degrees
• Internship support, paid internships, insurance coverage and recognition of academic credits depending on the duration

“The only point of this bill is the Rector, how the Rector will be elected. “But this is an issue that concerns a certain number of people,” he added.

University police

“The law that has been passed explicitly said that it must be preceded by a Presidential Decree. Because there are some sensitive issues. The Council of State a few weeks ago ruled in favor, saying that the regulation is constitutional, we are in the process of issuing the Presidential Decree and immediately after that the protection groups of university institutions will be able to work “.

While emphasizing that these groups will act in a deterrent manner, they will prevent the commission of criminal acts.

Finally, the competent minister announced that the planning for the beginning of the next school year is September 12th.

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