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A new challenge awaits the educational community in the second blockade of 2020, as the secondary and tertiary education structures will remain closed, continuing their operation with e-learning.
In contrast to the March closure – where distance learning was carried out with repetitions – this time the students and teachers of the country’s high schools and high schools are called to proceed normally. The leadership of the Ministry of Education declares itself “fully prepared” to face this new situation.
We are fully prepared for the transfer of the learning process to its distance form, we support by all means our students and their families, our teachers, our executives, and we are optimistic that in a short time we will return to normality ”. Kerameos Minister said in a relevant statement.
The closure announced last Thursday by the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will last from Monday, November 9 and for three weeks, until November 31.
The exceptions in the implementation of distance education are kindergartens and primary schools, which will continue their normal operation. In fact, there is a travel authorization provision for parents who will accompany their young children in the elementary structures, sending an SMS to the known number 13033.
How secondary schools and lyceums will work
With compulsory modern distance education, the institutes and lyceums of the territory will operate from tomorrow for three weeks. This time around, teachers are being asked to continue to cover the material as normal, in contrast to the closing of March, where distance learning was just about repetitions.
The school directors have been in charge of the development of the school programs since last Friday and it is expected that tomorrow everything will be ready for the start of distance education in all secondary schools.
As in March, in this blockade there will be cooperation between the Panhellenic Schools Network (PSD) and CISCO Webex without charge to the State for the implementation of modern e-learning. This time, however, according to the ministry, the PSD’s public networks and platforms are being updated.
In addition, the data charge for access to all educational platforms used by the ministry for distance education from the providers Cosmote, Vodafone, Wind and Forthnet will be zero.
There will also be the possibility of connecting with a landline (landline call) to the modern Webex e-learning platform.
Teachers are expected to be more prepared for the second cycle of distance education in 2020, having been preceded by special training programs, while the Educational Policy Institute has provided specific instructions for the development of distance education programs.
In addition, it should be noted that schools have been strengthened with more than 80,000 mobile devices (53,000 from NSRF, more than 10,000 from RDP contests and more than 20,000 from donations). According to the ministry, in July 2019, the number of mobile devices amounted to about 4,500. 
How Kindergartens and Elementary Schools Will Work
Kindergartens and elementary schools, as well as full-time schools, will continue to operate live.
In fact, according to the Ministry of Education, there is still the possibility of enrolling throughout the day, “for students to reap educational benefits, to support families in practice and avoid contact with high-risk groups, especially grandparents. “.
Most of the students and teachers have received travel certificates, with which they will be able to travel to and from their school.
As for parents, they should send an SMS to 13033, with the number 4.
How universities will work
With distance education, all the universities in the territory will continue to function. The only exceptions are the laboratories and clinical exercises of the last year of the degree, which will continue to be carried out for life.
As recently announced by the Ministry of Education, the distribution of textbooks for the winter semester will be done by home delivery. Beneficiary students must have completed the application process for the selection of textbooks before November 22, 2020, in order to obtain them. 
Each student must declare through the “EYDOXOS” Information System the place of delivery in which they want the textbooks they have chosen to be delivered (any area within the Greek territory and Cyprus). Beneficiary students, including Cypriot students, must declare the “place of delivery” by filling in the fields of the “Mandatory Address Statement”, namely: street, number, postal code, area, Kallikratika municipality, peripheral unit, district, while at the same time they are asked to update their contact details (mobile phone and email).
According to the ministry’s calculations, the distribution of the textbooks will be done independently if the educational process in the universities will be done remotely or in person and is expected to be completed by January 11, 2021.
Home delivery will be made under the responsibility of the publishers through courier companies.
Special education schools are open
As for the schools of special education and training of all levels, their operation for life will continue as normal.
“Special care has been taken with students and their families, among other reasons because they are disproportionately burdened by distance education,” the Ministry of Education said.
Tutorials are closed
The registration centers, study structures and language centers will be suspended until 11/31. However, they will only be able to operate through distance learning.
Other structures
Through Online Education, IEK, Postsecondary Year: Learning, Second Chance Schools, Lifelong Learning Centers, and Universities will continue for the next three weeks. For universities in particular, only labs and clinical exercises in the final year of undergraduate programs will be allowed for life.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
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