Greek Education system

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Greek Education system

• The structure of the education system

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• Education in Greece is compulsory for all
  children from 6 -1 5 years of age
• Primary Education called Dimotiko lasts for 6
  years ( 6 - 12 years of age)
• Secondary Education
• Lower secondary schools (Gymnasio), last for
  three years ( 12 15 years of age) and
• Upper secondary schools (Lykio), (15 - 18
  years of age)

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• School life of the students, however, starts with
  the pre-school education in institutions (both
  private and public) called
• Vrefonipiakoi paidikoi stathmoi (nursery
  classes which operate along kindergartens, 2- 6
  years of age).

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• Post- compulsory secondary Education, according
  to the Reform Act of 1997, consists of two school
  types
• A) Unified Upper Secondary Schools called
  Eniaia Lykia, which last for three years, and
• B) Technical Educational Schools (TEE).
• A level (2 years) and B level (3 years)

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• Along with the mainstream schools of Primary and
  Secondary Education, are also in operation
  Musical, Ecclesiastical and Physical Education
  gymnasia and Lykia which offer specified studies
  to cover different needs.

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• Post - compulsory secondary education also
  includes the Vocational Training Institutes
  (IEK), which are an unclassified level of
  education.

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• Public Higher Education is divided into
  Universities and Technological Education
  Institutes (TEI). Students are admitted to these
  Institutes according to their performance at
  national level examinations, that take after the
  second and third grade of Lykio
• Additionally, students are admitted to the
  Hellenic Open Universities after the completion
  of their 22nd year of age.

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• The following graph presents concisely the
  structure of the Greek Education System (the
  formal, classified or unclassified education).
• Formal education is characterized by the fixed
  length of study.
• As a consequence of the classification of the
  education institutions lead to a title (school-
  leaving certificate) compulsory for students, in
  order to continue with the next education level.

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• The major part of education system is supervised
  by the Ministry of Education. However, there are
  much more educational services, classified or
  unclassified, offered by both the private and the
  public sector.

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• A detailed description of the Greek Education
  System is offered in EURYBASE, the EURIDICE
  European Education System in
• http//www.ypepth.gr/

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The Identity of our School

• Our school was founded in 1983.
• We moved to this building in 1993
• It belong to the secondary education
• It has 310 students and 35 teachers

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• There are 5 classes
• In A grade with 22 students each
• In B grade with 28 students each, and
• In C grade with 22 students each

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• The programme SEPPE (Reordering of the school
  space) has been operated in our school since
  1997. This programme has been used is 86 junior
  high schools and 69 senior high schools in the
  country, and in this programme 5.500 teachers and
  60.000 students participate.

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• The purpose of the reordering was the creation of
  classrooms specially equipped for each subject
  (e.g mathematics classroom, classrooms for
  literature, sciences, chemistry lab, foreign
  language classrooms etc).
• This experiment has as a target to develop new
  methods and techniques of teaching as well as the
  use of the new technology (e.g computers,
  multimedia).

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• Apart from the daily programme, there are certain
  other activities after 2 o'clock, like
• Traditional dances, theatre, plastic art,
  constructions, music (school choir, piano
  lessons), environmental education etc.