Apostolos Lakasas is a journalist at Kathimerini English Edition. He focuses on themes related to education, including educational policy, public education, and school administration, with a particular interest in special education. His insights and analyses are featured in various discussions surrounding the education system and its management.
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By: Apostolos Lakasas
A sweeping overhaul of Greece's education system is being explored by an expert committee, introducing a national diploma that would track and score students' skills, extracurricular achievements, and certified knowledge from kindergarten through high school.
The Education Ministry is deploying an AI-powered platform to predict teacher shortages and accelerate school staffing, officials said.
By: Apostolos Lakasas
Troubles continue for the Education Ministry's “Trust in Our Stars” research program, as disputes over its evaluation process stall funding and final approvals.
By: Apostolos Lakasas
The Education Ministry has halted the “Trust Your Stars” research program after a Finance Ministry decision tied to revisions of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The government has failed to clamp down on violence and vandalism at the country's public universities. After the fiasco with the campus police force, it passed a new law last summer for campus security. That law has obviously not been put into force, though, as last week's rampage by anarchists at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) amply demonstrated.
By: Apostolos Lakasas
The Education Ministry announced plans for a 20-year national strategy to redesign the country's school network as falling birthrates and rural depopulation shrink student enrollment. First-grade registrations dropped from 115,000 in 2010-11 to 71,181 in the current 2025-26 school year, and are expected to fall below 70,000 next year, a decline of about 40%.
Greek universities are tightening rules governing student dormitories after a transparency investigation uncovered widespread failures in housing management, including rooms occupied by unauthorized residents and missing rental agreements.
The Senate of Panteion University approved a partnership with Columbia University to launch an English-language dual master’s program on “Global China,” despite objections from some faculty members and students over tuition fees.
By: Apostolos Lakasas
The social sciences research network has been left out of European Union structural funding, raising alarms about the country's capacity for evidence-based policymaking.
The number of university graduates seeking teaching jobs in Greece's public schools has dropped sharply, with applications to the national civil service board falling by more than 16,000 over three years – from 152,278 in 2023 to 136,059 this year.
