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Since 2019, the upgrade of Vocational Education and Training has been at the center of educational reform initiatives in Greece, with an important milestone being Law 4763/2020 which is based on an integrated strategy for vocational education, training and lifelong learning. 

The Pact for Excellence in Teaching includes the objective of gradually making compulsory education free as now it is being extended to the third year of ordinary primary education and to Maturity Level 2 of specialised education.  

To give all upper secondary school pupils a greater insight into the world of work, two schemes are introduced during the 2023-2024 school year: 

An internship for all students in the "seconde générale et technologique" (general and technological first year of upper secondary school): 

The Government has established a new state grant for the purchase of fiction and non-fiction literature for preschools and the earlier years in compulsory schools. Swedish pupils' reading comprehension is falling and over 20 percent in compulsory schools cannot read properly. To reverse this, many efforts are needed, one of them is more books. 

The programme ‘Olympic Education - 4th Olympic Week in schools’ will be implemented for a fourth year in a row, from 22 to 26 April 2024, by the Hellenic Olympic Committee and the National Olympic Academy, in cooperation with the Physical Education Directorate of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports. 

In 2024, the Ministry of Education launched the national project entitled Centres of Excellence for Vocational Education and Training. The project reflects on the need for reform in vocational education and aims to create a system of Centres of Excellence for Vocational Education and Training in the Slovak Republic, which will increase the quality, flexibility, and adaptability of vocational education and training.

A new groundbreaking scheme was recently announced which provides free schoolbooks to Junior Cycle students in post-primary schools in the Free Education Scheme.