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Ashley Kaufman EDUC 499: Greece - Summer 2019’s Updates
Greek Financial Crisis and Education
After reading the resources this week, I got quite an insight into what impact the financial crisis has had on the Greek education system. Public spending cuts and recruitment freezes of public workers has impacted wages as well as contracts for other teachers. The budget cut caused a lot of the schools to lower significantly in efficiency, as well as quality. As there is such a diverse student population, programs and the system couldn’t keep up with the cut. Because of the crisis, some classes were affected and that in turn causes lack of completeness in an individual’s education. People aren’t able to get the jobs they want/need if they cannot go get an education to support that. With the cuts also comes more unemployment, another contributor in the job market.
Reading these articles, I was able to learn about not only the connection between the financial crisis and education system in Greece, but how these systems work together and affect each other in every society. It is important that all systems and communities work together to provide the most opportunities. I think its great that the community and schools in Greece worked together in order to improve the lives and schooling of young children.
Dominique, I agree with what you've said. It's cyclical. One needs to be educated to to get the jobs they want/need. But with budget cuts to education and such a diverse population of students to educate, this is becoming more difficult to achieve. Therefore the unemployment level increases. And while some improvements have been made of late,the educational and financial crisis continues.