Organizing Studies
Period of teaching – Holidays
The academic year begins on September 1st of each year and ends on August 31st of the next. The school year begins on September 1st of each year and ends on July 5th of the next and includes two separate teaching periods, the semesters, of which the first is called fall and the second spring semester. The fall semester begins on September 1st and the spring ends in the second fortnight of June.
Each semester includes 13 full weeks of teaching. After the end of the courses of each semester follows the exam period. The recurrent examination period takes place in the first fortnight of September of the next school year.
Closing days are: March 25th , October 28th, 1st and 2nd day of Christmas, January 1st, January 6th(Epiphany), Clean Monday, Holy Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Monday, May 1st (Labour Day), Day of the Holy Spirit, August 15th, Saturdays and Sundays.
Lessons are not conducted:
On November 17th
During Christmas holidays, from December 24th to January 2nd
During Easter holidays, from Great Wednesday through Wednesday after Easter.
On the day of The Three Hierarchs
During summer vacation, beginning on July 6 and finish on August 31st
Lessons are also not conducted in the above official holidays of the state and local celebration of the town in which resides the TEI (May 15th) or the Annex.
Structure of Studies
The duration of studies is 8 (eight) semesters, including internships. In all semesters, except the last, the studies include theoretical teaching, laboratory and tutorial exercises and the assignments.
For proper scientific education of students the curriculum is organized into four(4) main groups, namely:
Group of lessons of General Infrastructure (GI): aims to create the required theoretical background of the student to be able to consolidate and understand in depth the courses of specific infrastructure as well as specialty courses that will follow. These courses are mainly of physics nature.
Group of courses of Special Infrastructure (SI): aims to create the the required theoretical background of the student to be able to consolidate and understand in depth the specialty courses that will follow. These courses are mainly general training courses on themes covered by the curriculum content of the department, such as courses of computer architecture, programming, databases, telecommunications, etc.
Group of courses of Specialty (S): aims to create the specialized knowledge required by the labor market in Computer Science Technologies and Telecommunications.
Group of courses of Administration, Finance, Legal and Humanitarian studies (DONA): aims to provide the necessary skills to more general issues related to their professional career. For example, legal regulations concerning the exercise of his profession, the economic constraints of special and general proposals to the company, etc.
The final project aims to give students the opportunity to deepen in a specific topic of interest. More specifically, through the final project, the student in addition to the insights he/she will gain in this matter, he/she will be trained on how to approach difficult problems that will encounter in the labor market and the resolution of which will require specific research of literature, research initiatives, etc.
The internships that takes place at the 7th or 8th semester aims to familiarize the students with a working environment where they will seek professional rehabilitation. During the internship the students will have the opportunity to see how it’s used in a real working environment what's taught to them in order to prepare better for the professional rehabilitation after receiving their degree.
Organizing Courses
The subjects of the curriculum beyond the above classification (GI, SI, S, DONA) are divided into Mandatory (M), Optionally Required (OR) and Optional (O), as follows:
Mandatory (M) is mainly infrastructure and courses of specific infrastructure, which is mandatory for all students of the Department.
Optionally Required (OR) are specialty courses selected from students from a group of several courses and allow the students to deepen their knowledge in a subject according to their interests.
Optional (O) are language lessons. Many of the classes are mixed (meaning, excluding the hours of theory, there are also hours of laboratory exercise). The courses which include theory and tutorial courses are not mixed, but merely theoretical.
For the student to become a graduate he/she needs to successfully complete 39 courses by following the restrictions of the approved curriculum. Specifically, he/she must successfully complete all courses type (M) and the minimum number of courses type (OR). The optional courses that might be attended by the student are not counted in the minimum number of courses needed to obtain a degree.