Tutoring boom challenges school reform efforts

Eight successful 10 students accidental they would not person succeeded successful nationalist exams without tutoring. [Shutterstock]

A caller study by the Center for Educational Policy Development highlights the trouble Greece faces successful restoring the acquisition relation of precocious schoolhouse done the National Leaving Certificate, arsenic backstage tutoring remains dominant. 

Eight successful 10 students accidental they would not person succeeded successful nationalist exams without tutoring. 

In 2023, households spent €871 million, the highest level of the past decade, though existent spending is apt higher owed to undeclared payments. 

Spending fell until 2021 earlier rising sharply aft the pandemic, reflecting accrued request for support. 

Secondary acquisition accounts for astir each costs. Families spend astir €180 monthly, with stark inequalities betwixt low- and high-income groups. 

Most respondents reported satisfaction, though fractional of parents accidental tutoring overloads students. 

The study spans a decennary marked by crisis, pandemic disruption, inflation, and rising costs, yet tutoring remains indispensable for exam success successful Greece.