Strongly affected by the economic crisis, the Greek education system has suffered a series of cuts in public spending and a recruitment freeze of public civil servants which has impacted wages and resulted in the hiring of new teachers on short-term contracts. This is affecting the quality of schools and the education system as a whole as it deals with an increasingly diverse student body, including high levels of child poverty and a larger proportion of migrant and refugee students. It doesn’t surprise me that a ton of universities and schools had to face huge cuts. To help out with the crisis schools are reforming their policies to become more student centered to focus on the needs of students. The economic crisis also affected classes because of prolonged strikes. People are unable to get the education that they need in order to get a good job. This is causing more the unemployment rate to increase.