The main target groups addressed by this postgraduate programme are:

Specialization : Strategic Planning and Quality Assurance

Α. Professionals in the field (administrative and/or scientific executives working in higher education institutions or in institutions related to higher education, such as e.g. HQA, ESYP, EOPPEP, IKY and the Ministry of Education) who are interested in acquiring theoretical foundations in higher education policy issues and in general to improve their skills and knowledge regarding current trends, developments and perspectives in the field of higher education in Greece, Europe and internationally. In particular, the specialization aims to train specialists in strategic planning and quality assurance in higher education.

B. Νew graduates of various disciplines who are interested in specializing in the specific subject (higher education policy) in order to either pursue a scientific career by continuing for doctoral studies with research/academic perspectives or to acquire relevant employment prospects as professionals in the field, given that there is an increasing need for specialized executives in new structures and new bodies within and outside higher education institutions (e.g. governmental policy bodies, quality assurance and strategic plan bodies, etc.).

Specialization: Teacher Education

Α. Current and/or future teachers who would like to specialize in issues related to the theoretical and practical debate on the desired profile of the teacher and the conditions for its constitution (education: initial and lifelong). The aim is to link with the relevant European and international debates in the perspective of the formation of the European Area of Education. In particular, the specialization wants to train experts in teacher education, creating a critical mass of teachers who will be able to negotiate rationally and up-to-date the conditions of their scientific identity, their professional development and their autonomy.

B. Νew graduates of various disciplines who are interested in specializing in the specific subject in order to either pursue a scientific career by continuing for doctoral studies with research/academic prospects or to acquire relevant employment prospects as professionals with scientific constitution of the field (Teacher Education), given that current developments create conditions for a radical
reshaping of the teacher of school education both at the scientific and at the working level.