Higher Education In Greece Research Articles

MOBILITY OR MIGRATION?: THE CASE OF GREEK STUDENTS ABROAD

Both in relative and in absolute terms, Greece has more university level students studying abroad than does any other European country. Although the phenomenon is unplanned, it results from the fact that there is far greater social demand for higher education in Greece than the locally available institutions can provide. Moreover, since Greece has so far not established any third cycle (postgraduate) programmes and institutions, all postgraduate degrees must be earned abroad. Upon their return home, Greek students may have some difficulty in obtaining official recognition of their foreign degrees from the Inter‐University Centre for the Recognition of Diplomas Obtained Abroad, which has been functioning since 1979. The Certificate of Recognition issued by this Centre is as important for obtaining employment or for qualifying to exercise certain professions as the diploma itself. The problems of obtaining equivalences contribute to a tendency for the best students to remain abroad and thus be lost to Greec...

Higher education in Greece

Higher education in Greece

New University Dimensions in Greece

Abstract The Greek authorities are at present struggling to develop new dimensions in higher education in order to meet the new demands as members of the European Common Market. The author (B.A. equivalent, University of Athens; M.A., Ph.D., Southern California) sketches the problems and demands and offers a wide range of suggestions for the advancement of higher education in Greece. He is serving at present on the faculty of Western Washington State College.