Interested citizens and organizations are invited until Monday, February 20, to submit their comments, which will be taken into account for the submission of the final draft law to the Parliament, for processing and voting
In public electronic consultation the bill of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs “”We Live in Harmony Together – Breaking the Silence”: Arrangements for preventing and dealing with violence and bullying in schools and other provisions” was tabled last night.
The goal of the regulation is to prevent and deal with violence and bullying within the country’s primary and secondary education structures.
The legislative one initiative comes to complement existing actions of the ministry that operate in the same context, such as doubling the number of psychologists and social workers in schools, teacher training, the school life consultant, related topics in the context of skills workshops and new curricula, strengthening of supporting institutions such as the KEDASY.
Interested citizens and institutions are invited until Monday, February 20 (9:00) to submit their comments, which will be taken into account for the submission of the final draft law to the Parliament, for processing and voting.
More specifically, the draft law provides for:
- At the school unit level, the School Director is assigned to deal with incidents, with the support of a School Life Advisor.
- At the Education Management level, the collective response and handling of incidents is institutionalized. There are action groups per Directorate of Education, in which psychologists and social workers participate.
- At the level of Regional Directorates of Education, the Regional Directors and Heads of KEDASY of the Directorate are informed.
- Operation of a special seven-member scientific committee at the Ministry of Education, with the participation of expert scientists.
- Operation of a digital platform for receiving and utilizing even anonymous reports from students. Anonymous reporting makes it easier for the victim or classmate to report related incidents.
The bill includes additional provisions, which concern the following:
* Research Centers of the Academy of Athens: three Research Centers are recommended at the Academy of Athens, at the request of the Academy, with the aim of promoting scientific research in specific fields of science and the way of meeting the needs of these centers in research staff is regulated. Specifically, the following are recommended: a) the Center for Space Research and Technology (KE.D.ET.), whose purpose is to promote scientific research in the fields of space science, with an emphasis on space physics and the development of related applications with space science and technology, b) the Center for Research and Education in Public Health (KEEDY), whose purpose is to promote scientific research in the fields of health and disease prevention and c ) the Natural Disasters and Crisis Management Research Center (K.E.F.K.), whose purpose is to promote scientific research into natural disasters and their management.
* Evaluation of the project Directors, Deputy Directors and DIEK Trainers: a dynamic, multi-level and effective evaluation system for Directors, Deputy Directors and vocational training trainers of the public Vocational Training Institutes (VET) under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education and Religion is established, for the first time by law. An important innovation. of the evaluation system, the participation of all those involved in the evaluation procedures, with the key parameter of the new system being the participation of the trainees in the evaluation of Directors, Deputy Directors and professional training instructors of I.E.K..
* Other provisions, including:
* Arrangements for doctoral study programs, as well as the possibility for A.E.I. of the country to organize and operate joint study programs with recognized institutions abroad, leading to degrees, on the basis of drafting a memorandum of cooperation.
* Staff issues of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) are specifically regulated.
* Special issues related to the Special Research Accounts (SRA) of the Higher Education Institutions (A.E.I.) are regulated.
* From the academic year 2022 – 2023 the Supreme Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens automatically enters as a quasi-Catholic successor of the A.E.A. Vellas of Ioannina and Thessaloniki, whose operation ceased from the academic year 2022 – 2023.
* Arrangements for the provision of services by education executives and other teachers at the Institute of Education Policy within the framework of the E.S.P.A. 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 and of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan Greece 2.0.
The bill is put up for consultation at the link: http://www.opengov.gr/ypepth/?p=6049
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