Greece Fast-Tracks Secondment of 156 Teachers to Diaspora Schools

Schoolchildren parade connected “OXI” day successful Toronto. Credit: Greek Community Toronto

Greece’s Minister for Education, Religious Affairs and Sports, Sofia Zacharaki, has announced the secondment of 156 teachers to Greek acquisition institutions of the Diaspora for the 2026–2027, 2027–2028, and 2028–2029 schoolhouse years.

According to the ministerial decision, the educators volition service successful overseas acquisition units portion continuing to person their regular salaries successful Greece, supplemented by a peculiar overseas allowance. They volition beryllium placed nether the authorization of their applicable Coordinating Education Offices for determination assignment.

The ministry noted that the determination was issued importantly earlier than successful erstwhile years. This proactive timeline gives educators and coordinators capable clip to finalize placements, ensuring Greek schools overseas tin run smoothly from time 1 of the world year.

“For the archetypal time, earlier than ever before, we are giving Greek schools overseas the time, stability, and certainty they request to invited the caller schoolhouse twelvemonth with the indispensable staffing,” Zacharaki said, adding that the inaugural follows “intensive effort” to enactment teachers, families, and diaspora communities worldwide.

The announcement is portion of a broader propulsion by the Greek authorities to modernize Greek-language education globally. Zacharaki emphasized that Greek-language acquisition overseas is simply a “national priority” and serves arsenic “a span connecting younger generations with Greece.”

Greece’s teachers and students of the diaspora

Currently, the Ministry supports a immense planetary web of Greek-language programs:

• 745 seconded teachers actively serving abroad.
• Over 41,000 students enrolled worldwide.
• 57 Greek schools, 149 Greek language departments, and 30 assemblage chairs dedicated to Greek studies.

The Ministry besides highlighted ongoing infrastructure investments, including the escaped printing and organisation of implicit 145,000 textbooks for overseas schools, alongside targeted caller enactment for connection programs successful Armenia, Wales, Germany, and France.

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