Government launching dialogue on high school and university admission reform

The authorities is launching a nationalist dialog aimed astatine securing wide governmental statement connected large changes to the precocious schoolhouse structure and the university admittance system, with the instauration of a caller National School Certificate.

According to accusation from Kathimerini, the dialog will beryllium initiated successful the coming days by Education Minister Sofia Zacharaki.

Under the projected system, students’ show crossed each three years of precocious schoolhouse would lend to their last nationalist diploma grade, ensuring that their aboriginal is not determined by a single three-hour exam, arsenic is presently the case.

The extremity is to instrumentality the caller diploma from the 2026–2027 world year, starting with students who implicit mediate schoolhouse this year. To conscionable this timeline, the indispensable authorities indispensable beryllium finalized by May 2026.

The existent system, officials acknowledge, has large flaws. High schools person mislaid their acquisition role, arsenic students absorption lone connected the 4 subjects of the National Examinations; backstage tutoring costs load families; and university admittance decisions beryllium connected a brief, high-pressure exam period.

To guarantee transparency, students’ written exams could beryllium digitized and stored, with random checks by an outer assemblage of graders. The aim, the curate stresses, is simply a fairer, much balanced evaluation, without turning schools into exam centers.