Kerameos: Strong interest in professional education

The data provided by the analysis of the bases for admission to higher education are numerous and are evaluated by the Ministry of Education. As the Minister of Education points out in her exclusive statement to APE-MBE Niki Kerameosamong what is evaluated as the most important is “the intense interest of the candidates for Vocational Education and Training”.

“This sector is very promising, with promising prospects for our children, as many specialties are at the top of the professional demand in Greece today, such as e.g. the web designers. In government we strongly believe in Vocational Education and Training, which offers more options for our children. The fact that 1 in 4 who applied for Public IEK was in a different region from the one he lives in, they further emphasize the alternative route offered by the Public IEK” notes Mrs. Kerameos.

The Minister of Education also underlines that “next September they will be given 10,000 additional places for registration in the DIEKin addition to the 13,472 that were already occupied by the successful ones through parallel computing”.

According to the data of the Ministry of Education for the Public IEK, the total number of candidates with a finalized parallel computer program amounted to 20,432, of which 18,812 candidates are high school graduates of the year 2021-2022 and 1,620 are graduates of previous years. In relation to 2021, the admission rate to Public IEK increased to 65.9%.

Family planning

In her statement to APE-MPE, the Minister of Education states that every effort was made to announce the bases earlier so that families have more time at their disposal in view of planning for the new year.

“Our goal was to put an end to the anxiety of the candidates as soon as possible and also to help the family in their optimal planning. The success of this project is credited to the workers in the competent departments of the ministry, who with their tireless efforts, managed to issue the final results a month earlier and to our excellent cooperation with the co-competent ministries” notes Mrs. Kerameos.

The elements of bases in numbers

• 75,154 are successful this year from 71,833 in 2021
• 68.83% is the percentage of admission to HEIs from GELs and is considered quite high
• 10,839 are the positions left vacant in higher institutions
• 19,660 points is the highest admission score – It was achieved by Katerina Vavoula from Naxos who was admitted to Athens Medicine
• 6.8 was the lowest entry score in HEIs (School of Regional and Economic Development in Amfissa)
• 93% is the percentage of successful applicants who are admitted to a school/department in the top ten of their preferences
• 2,948 is the largest increase in admission bases and is recorded in Mathematikon Ioannina
• 2,252 units is the largest drop in entry bases and is recorded in the Naval Cadets-Engineers Department
• 0 are admitted to the School of Nursing in Didymoteicho.
• 232 were the divisions where bases rose, while 212 saw a fall

The general picture

Bases were down in most fields. In particular, a drop in admission bases was recorded in the law and polytechnic schools, while an increase was noted in the economic schools.

The assessment of the analysts is that the large drop in the schools of the 1st field (law, pedagogy, etc.) is due to the reduced number of candidates. In contrast, economics schools seem to attract the most interest from applicants, which is why there has been an increase.

As far as the vacancies are concerned, their relatively high number is attributed to the decision of the central universities to choose the highest possible coefficient with which they set the minimum admission bases with the aim of reducing the number of admissions.

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