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Thousands pupils and students gathered in Greece’s school courtyards on Wednesday for the traditional, religious blessing ceremony on the start of the new school year. School year 2024-2025 starts with a novelty that students will have to keep their mobile phones in their bags during classes and breaks otherwise they …

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Parents of high school students in Thessaloniki were seen carrying fans from home to school on Wednesday  so that their children could participate at the university entrance exams in a ‘comfortable’ environment due to the heat wave sweeping across the county. Many public schools have neither Air Conditioning or fans …

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Dozens of elementary schools located in Athens and broader Attica received bomb threats via e-mail on Wednesday morning, Greek police said. The e-mails with identical content were sent to at least 35 schools from an anonymous sender outside Greece and alleged that explosives were stored in schools in Gerakas, Aigaleo, …

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Dozens of elementary school children in Lamia, central Greece, have shown symptoms of food poisoning after they consumed a meal offered by the assigned catering service, state broadcaster ERT reported on Friday. Parents are in outrage and prepare to file law suits. At least 15 children showed symptoms of poisoning, …

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday the launching of a national campaign against bullying in schools, a phenomenon that has sharply increased in the school year 2023-2024. “It is a comprehensive plan which speaks openly about the problem. We cannot sweep it under the rug. It exists. It concerns …

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School children in Greece paraded on Sunday to mark the Greek Independence Day and the 1821 Greek War of Independence on March 25 and thus a day before the military parade, on Monday. At total of 1,500 students from 230 primary and secondary schools paraded in front of government and …

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One in three school children fall victim of bullying in schools, a survey in Greece has found. And this while the phenomenon of bullying is increasing worldwide. The phenomenon of violence in schools and bullying is getting bigger and bigger, the annual statistics of NGO “The Smile of the Child” …

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Greece’s National Health Care organization EODY issued a series of measures for schools in order to reduce the transmission of respiratory infections such as Covid-19, influenza and others. The “measures” or better say “recommendations” were issued late on Thursday as schools resume operation after the Christmas holidays. Worth noting that …

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Part of the ceiling in a primary school in Volos collapsed and crushed on the the teacher’s desk and the pupil’s desk. It was pure time coincidence that nobody was injured. According to local media magnisianews.gr, the incident occurred in a classroom of the 18th primary school just when the …

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Snowfalls will continue late on Wednesday and also on Thursday, February 8-9, and Greece’s National Meteorological Service updated its weather warning on cold front “Barbara”. Snow, sleet and frost are the main features for the next hours. Schools will be closed in some suburbs of Attica. Weather Warning Wednesday (08/02/2023) …

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The regional government of Attica decided to have schools shut down also on Wednesday, February 8, 2023 as the snow weather will continue. However, not all of primary and secondary public and private schools across Attica will be shut as the snowfalls will not be severe everywhere. The schools of …

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Schools in some suburbs of Athens will remain closed also on Tuesday and workers can go to work not earlier than 10 a.m. as snow weather deterioration is forecast over night with frost phenomena early in the morning. Schools will be closed also on the islands of Evia, Samos, Lesvos …

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Schools and kindergartens in Attica will remain closed on Monday and public servants can do tele-working due to snow falls and adverse weather conditions authorities announced on Sunday afternoon. According to latest weather forecast, heavy snowfalls, sleet, powerful winds and icy conditions are due at the start of the week. …

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School year 2022-2023 in Greece will start on September 12 without masks and Covid-tests for teachers and students alike, the health minister said on Monday. No mask mandate in schools, despite the fact that coronavirus infections remain high. “Τhere will be no mask mandate but recommendation,” health minister Thanos Plevris …

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Schools in Greece will open on Monday, September 12, 2022, Education Minister Niki Kerameos announced on Friday. Speaking to Skai TV, the minister said that the schools “will open with the best possible human resource condition of all time,” saying that 8,500 hiring have been completed.   The new permanent …

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The mandatory use of face mask at schools, universities and at all educational institutions will be lifted on June 1, the Greece’s Education Ministry announced on Wednesday. The only exception will be during any type of exams such as the end of year exams or for university entry where students …

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Greece’s epidemiologists’ committee gave on Wednesday the green light for fewer weekly tests for vaccinated students and teachers as well as the increase of capacity at sports stadiums. The committee recommended that teachers and students will gave to do only one self-test per week from two until now. The measures …

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Primary and secondary schools in parts of northern, eastern and western Attica will remain closed also on Friday, March 11, due to snow weather “Philip”, regional authorities announced on Thursday. Hay trucks are banned from highway parts as of 10 p.m. Thursday. According to a statement by the Attica regional …

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Schools in several areas of Attica will remain closed on Thursday due to snow and cold weather front “Philip”, Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Christos Stylianides decided on Wednesday. The schools are in areas of north, east and west Attica. The specific areas affected by this decision were announced …

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A number of schools in Attica will remain closed on Tuesday, mainly due to difficulties caused by the snowfall  a week ago. In the northern suburbs, authorities announced that 2nd junior high school in Aghia Paraskevi will not open, due to building problems. The senior high school in Melissia which …

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