the Secondary Education Administration of the Ministry of National Education and Religious
Affairs and 200 at schools of our country. In addition, 11 more Ke.Sy.Ps and 270 GraSeps
have been founded recently and 100 more will be founded at 100 schools.
The aim of the Ke.Sy.P is to expand the Educational and Career Counselling institution in
regional level and to help the individuals (students in secondary and tertiary education) to
realize their capabilities and to be placed uneventfully into the social and educational envi-
ronment and into large social groups ( schools, students of secondary and tertiary educa-
tion, parents of students, teachers etc.).
To be more specific:
In September of 1997 a new Law was voted, the Law 2525/97 which was entitled “Unified
High School, Access of Secondary Education graduates in Tertiary Education, Evaluation
of the Educational Process and more dispositions”. The article 10 of this new Law includes
the following:
Article 10 / Educational and Career Counselling
- Educational and Career Counselling aims to provide help to students at their
several levels of growth in order to realize their interests, to develop their
capabilities and to support their participation in society. - The National Centre of Career Counselling (E.K.E.P.) is situated in Athens
according to the disposition 16 of the Law 2224/1994 and is supervised by the
Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Labour
and Social Security. - A). In order to spread the institute of Educational Career Counselling to all over
the country, Ke.Sy.Ps are founded at the seats of nomes, one at the Pedagogical
Institute, one at the Secondary Education Administration of the Ministry of National
Education and Religious Affairs and 200 at schools of our country. Ke.Sy.Ps and
GraSeps are supervised by the Ministry of National Education and Religious
Affairs and are financed by the budget of the same Ministry.
B). The aims of GraSeps, the numbers of counsellors and their salaries and
obligations, as well as the function and the number of Ke.Sy.Ps per nome and
the schools which will have a GraSep are factors determined by a President
decree.Fulfilment of needs
● Ke.Sy.Ps and GraSeps fulfil the needs of students in secondary and tertiary