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The Minister of Education, Sports and Youth, Ms Athina Michaelidou, participated today in an extraordinary meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Culture, during which she informed the President and the members of the Committee on the proposed changes in the institution of the four-months.
At the end of the session, the Minister, in a statement to journalists, said: "I had the opportunity today, in the Parliamentary Committee on Education, to present the philosophy, the basic principles as well as the practices and provisions, of the new Assessment Plan for the Student in Secondary Education, which recently received the approval of the Council of Ministers.
As I have mentioned, in line with our commitment to the Governance Programme, it is a modern Student Assessment Plan, a flexible Plan based on basic pedagogical principles.
We have explained to our MPs that, through an intensive dialogue, we have arrived at its provisions and practices, which we will implement from next September. It is very important to stress that the months remaining until September are crucial for us, because we are called upon to organize ourselves on many levels, especially in the training of our teachers, the information of parents/guardians and students and the regulation of all those procedural issues that need to be done in order to implement the New Evaluation Plan to the best possible extent.
I believe that, if this Plan is approved by the Parliament, proceeding with its implementation will open the way to pedagogical autonomy and decentralisation of our educational system, but above all to work on other parallel issues, such as the reduction of the curriculum, the evaluation of the teacher, the improvement of teaching methods through a new philosophy, the philosophy of student-centred, modern, pedagogical philosophy", said the Minister of Education in conclusion.
For the Minister's presentation to the Parliamentary Committee click here.
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