The Minister of Education referred to the reforms expected to be promoted by the Ministry of Education in the coming months, Kyriakos Pierrakakis who, speaking on Saturday morning on SKAI and on Giorgos Autias’ show “Morning”, referred among other things to the digital tutorial promoted by the government, about violence in schools but also about how the University of Thrace is turning into a university pillar throughout the region .

According to Mr. Pierrakakis, new departments are expected to be established at the University of Thrace “for both educational and national reasons”, as he said.

Alongside, stated that approximately 50,000 Greeks study abroad. “It’s a pretty big number if you compare it to the corresponding number. In other countries, in absolute terms we have seven times as many people as the population, we have to turn this upside down” he commented and underlined that there will be a legislative initiative that will be presented to the cabinet within the year in order to change this image.

Digital tutorial

The Minister of Education also referred to the ministry’s initiative regarding digital remedial teaching. “There are children in uncritical areas who do not have good remedial teaching, who do not have the financial means” for remedial teaching, said Mr. Pierrakakis, for this reason there will be digital remedial teaching initially in mathematics and language from February 2024.

“We will videotape all the material from 1st grade to 3rd high school and every lesson will be available online,” he said specifically about the way the process will be carried out and will be immediately available for students.

Regarding the Panhellenic classes, he argued that they will not be videotaped but will be broadcast live. This is the second step as he said, which will start from September 2024.

Bullying in schools

Regarding school bullying and incidents of violence, the minister stated that “it is an abscess that we must break. We will need to do a national campaign asking for everyone’s help to communicate that violence is something negative for the child. There is an existing institutional framework, which will be implemented,” he said and announced the creation of a platform that will be ready within November, where every child will be able to enter and report incidents of violence.

For SYRIZA

Regarding the developments in SYRIZA, he stated once again that “we do not comment on the internal affairs of other parties. I would be troubled in the position of the new leader of the official opposition not so much in the internal party field as in the social field. It appears in the opinion polls that society does not embrace the programmatic proposal of SYRIZA.”