Australia

The Hellenic Initiative Australia is supporting an innovative education and youth empowerment program that connects students from remote and disadvantaged schools across Greece with mentors from around the world. The Tipping Point program brings the world into the classroom through...

Applications are now open for Preschools to participate in the Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) program which engages preschoolers with languages other than English. The ELLA program is part of the Coalition Government’s efforts to boost language learning backed by...

Residents whose children attend Northcote High School in Melbourne's inner north are voicing discontent as the school has recently announced that it will be phasing out its Greek and Italian language programs. The school will continue to teach Chinese and...

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia has voiced opposition to a school program that aims to curb bullying among children. The Church will be holding information sessions run by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia to educate parents on the...

The 2014 Conference of the Modern Greek Teachers’ Association was held successfully at the University of Melbourne with the participation of about a hundred teachers of Modern Greek. The conference entitled "Teaching Modern Greek: Successes and Prospects" aimed to highlight the successes...

At the end of August, a joint fundraiser for a medical and pharmaceutical aid campaign for the most vulnerable citizens of Greece will be completed. The charity fundraiser is organized by the organization Greek Ambassadors and the Greek Orthodox...

The Ambassador for Greece to Australia Charalambos Dafaranos, accompanied by Vassilios Tolios, the Consul-General of Hellas in Sydney, together with Vassilios Gogas, Education coordinator of Australia and New Zealand, visited the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) headquarters...

Modern Greek is one of the top five languages other than English spoken in Australia, with more than 250,000 Australians stating in the 2006 Census that they spoke Greek at home. Greek is one of the eleven languages which are...

The Australian Hellenic Educators’ Association in New South Wales, the ACT and Queensland have welcomed the decision to make mandatory Holocaust education compulsory. The association recently stated that: “The Australian Hellenic Educators’ Association welcomes the announcement of the NSW Board...

A Federal Member for Calwell, Maria Vamvakinou and for Hindmarsh, Steve Georganas welcomed the decision of the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority’s (ACARA) to include Modern Greek in the National School Curriculum as a Second Language instead of...

Minister of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship N. Kotsiras announced that $140,000 are going to be given to 85 community language schools across Victoria. According to the minister, foreign languages are important for developing an international perspective. Multicultural speakers enhance...

In an effort to enhance and contribute to the promotion of the Greek language in Australia, the Pancretan Association of Melbourne decided to offer a scholarship to every Greek bilingual Daily College of the community. Three bilingual colleges of the Greek language in Melbourne...

The book by Eugenia Arvaniti titled “Greek Ethnic Schools in Australia in the Late 1990s: Selected Case Studies” illuminated one of the most interesting cases of Greek schools of the Diaspora, through systematic research. The book was recently presented...

The Federal Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, Peter Garrett, last weekend attended an afternoon tea hosted by the Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia to outline the Federal Government's progress in developing the new national curriculum...

Greek will be one of the foreign languages taught in mainstream public schools across Australia. It is one of eleven languages the government included in the country’s national curriculum. Greek language teachers in Australia are celebrating. They describe the Australian government’s...