4. Quality education

Data for the indicator 4.1. Research on early years and lifelong learning education (4.1.1 Quality Education: paper views, 4.1.2 Quality Education: CiteScore, and 4.1.3 Quality Education: publications) is being collected via Scopus.

4.2 Proportion of graduates with teaching qualification

4.2.1 Proportion of graduates with relevant qualification for teaching

Graduate only: 468 / 4722 = 9.91%
All levels: 558 / 5212 = 10.7%

Departments counted: Department of Education and Social Work; Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education. It should be noted that other Departments' graduates are able to work on secondary education schools, e.g. teaching biology, physics, etc.

4.3 Lifelong learning measures

4.3.1 Public resources (lifelong learning)

The University has developed and made avalailable several Open Courses to broaden and increase their audience beyond the students taking that particular course. The audience may be expanded with students from another Department of the University of Patras, students from other Institutions, graduates of the Department or other Departments with the same or similar subject and general public. There is no limitation following an Open Course or using its resources. The complete list is available at https://opencourses.gr/results.xhtml?ln=el&uni=Πανεπιστήμιο+Πατρών and information about the project can be found at http://ocw-project.upatras.gr.

Finally, its Library is open to the general public for studying. According to its Regulation unemployed citizens are entitled to a waiver for registering to other services, such as circulation of material, etc. A translation of the article 5.1. of the Regulation follows:

Unemployed, who can obtain an External User Card, without paying the one-off amount, by presenting a valid OAED unemployment card. The duration of the membership card is annual and the validity of the unemployment card is regularly checked.

4.3.2 Public events (lifelong learning)

(Συνεδριακό;)

4.3.3 Vocational training events (lifelong learning)

The University operates the Lifelong Learning Center – University of Patras, which offers several courses for vocational training. It was established in 2018 with the main purpose to design, organize and operate lifelong training programs in a wide range of fields as technology, administration, health, humanities, education, art etc. Distance and blended learning are the main methods for the programs implementation and the Center is always looking for new attractive methods and approaches for the improvement of adults education, training and employment. The Center provides both free and paid courses. Indicative courses:

Further, the University operates the Auditor of University Courses. Citizens who wish to do so, have the opportunity to attend university courses of their choice from those offered by Departments. They receive from the Secretariat of the Department a card to admit specific courses, for a specific period. They do not participate in exams or in laboratory, clinical or tutorial exercises, and they receive a certificate of attendance at the end of each semester.

4.3.4 Education outreach activities beyond campus

This is an indicative list of activities:

The Laboratory of Pedagogical Research and Lifelong Education of the Department of Educational Science and Early Childhood Education has undertaken the assessment of the TEACH4_I (Teach for Integration) project, which involves the training of 3,750 teachers working in institutions with refugee and migrant children. The programme is implemented by three universities (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Thessaly), supervised and funded by the UNICEF Office in Greece and under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports and the Institute of Educational Policy.

The Children's Festival is organized by the students of Department of Educational Science and Early Childhood Education of the University of Patras in collaboration with the teachers of the Department. Every year, at the end of spring and for one week, about 2000 children of preschool age visit the Children's Festival, together with their teachers or parents, in order to participate in creative activities and educational orientation workshops, which take place in the premises of the Department. See more at https://childrenfestival.gr/en/timeline/.

The Laboratory of Greek Language and Culture of the University of Patras has collaborated with the Association of Greek-Ukrainian Friendship "Faros" during the summer of 2022. The Laboratory provided Greek language course fee free to Ukrainian war refugees who have been settled in the region of Patras with the aid of the "Faros" association. The provision of the language course serves the Goal 4 of SDGs especially 4.4. and 4.5 as the knowledge of Greek language would enable the refugees (vulnerable group) to better integrate to Greek society and find a job. Furthermore, the attendees were women, who are more vulnerable than men when in refugees' status, thus we provided a chance to smooth out the differences between genders (Goals 5 and 10). (Note: Also mentioned in SDG17)

4.3.5 Lifelong learning access policy

The University prescribes in the Internal Regulations (latest version published on the Govenrment's Gazette, II, 5468, 14/09/2023) explicitly that all of its activity is governed by the following principles:

2. The operation of the University of Patras is supported to a set of values, which are based on the principles of freedom of teaching and research, free expression and circulation of ideas, respect of the rights of the members of the University Community and of society as a whole, of justice, of meritocracy, transparency, accountability, equality, as well as on the principle of the cooperation of every institution of the University Community in the context of compliance with the Constitution, the Laws and Regulations. Any discrimination, which is related with color, gender, sexual orientation, racial, national or ethnic origin, age, religion or ideology, is considered impermissible.

(Article 3: Mission and Targets)

4.4 Proportion of first-generation students

4.4.1 Proportion of first-generation students

This information is not available.