{"id":5876,"date":"2026-05-16T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5876"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:12:00","slug":"sophia-zacharaki-greece-has-made-significant-steps-forward-public-education-is-a-key-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5876","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Zacharaki: Greece has made significant steps forward &#8211; Public education is a key policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\"> <b>Sofia Zacharaki<\/b> highlighted the national role of <b>education<\/b> as a social agreement for the future of the new generation.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"3\">stable commitment<\/b> of the government to the <b>upgrading<\/b> of <b>schools and universities<\/b> was underlined by <b>Minister of Education<\/b>, <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"113\">Sofia Zacharaki<\/b> during her remarks at the <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"156\">Conference of the New Democracy<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"189\">c. Zacharaki<\/b> noted emphatically that &#8220;education is a deeper social agreement for the future of the country. <b>For the New Democracy party, for the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, public education is a central political choice<\/b>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">&#8220;We know very well that <b>the New Democracy party has historically been the party associated with the country&#8217;s major choices<\/b>. I belong to a generation that grew up politically in the New Democracy, that believed in change, in modernization, in the need for politics to remain close to the everyday life of citizens. <b>In recent years, Greece has made very important steps forward<\/b>,&#8221; the Education Minister continued.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">&#8220;The <b>great change<\/b> is not only in the numbers or indicators. <b>It is also in the mindset, in trying to leave behind logics of stagnation<\/b>. I believe that the next big challenge is for the country and the young generation. It is about <b>whether young people will believe again that Greece can give them opportunities for development and that public education can be a source of knowledge, perspective and self-confidence<\/b>. We are not starting from scratch. Within <b data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"441\">7 years<\/b> we have kept the education system upright in the pandemic, with the fastest transition to <b data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"542\">digital teaching<\/b>,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"> <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"2\">Sofia Zacharaki<\/b> referred to specific <b>steps in the field of education<\/b> that have been implemented.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">&#8220;<b>We have taken steps that others have avoided for decades<\/b>. <b>This is the essence of our ideology<\/b>. We committed to a great national dialogue, to a bold conversation about <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"166\">a national baccalaureate<\/b>, to talk at some point about <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"218\">alternative university admissions<\/b>. A reliable system, but we also need an option for the next day,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">&#8220;<b>We want everyone to be heard and this is the direction Kyriakos Mitsotakis is giving. No class dialogue that helps no one<\/b>,&#8221; added <b>Sofia Zacharaki<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia Zacharaki highlighted the national role of education as a social agreement for the future of the new generation.<br \/>\nThe government&#8217;s firm commitment to &#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}