TEI of Western Macedonia

The Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Western Macedonia is a state-run tertiary education institution based in Kozani, Greece. The institution, which was founded in 1976, operates satellite campuses in the nearby towns of Kastoria, Florina and Grevena.

Faculties

*Faculty of Technological Applications (seat:Kozani), Departments:
**Electrical Engineering
**Mechanical Engineering
**Industrial Planning
**Geotechnology and Environment
**Anti-pollution Technologies
**Industrial Information technology
**General Department of Positive Sciences

*Faculty of Administration and Economy (seat:Kozani), Departments:
**Financing Applications
**Accountant
**Administration of Enterprises
**International Trade (seat: Kastoria)
**Public Relations and Communication (seat: Kastoria)
**Information technology and Technology of Computers (seat: Kastoria)
**Applications of Information technology in Administration and economy (seat: Grevena)

*Faculty of Technology of Agronomics (seat: Florina), Departments:
**Animal Production
**Plant Production
**Marketing and Qualitative Control of Rural Products

New Faculties and departments

A new Faculty that will function from 2009:
*Faculty of Health (seat: Kozani), Departments:
**Ergotherapy
**Obstetrics (seat: Ptolemaida)

New Departments that will function from 2009:
**Administration of Supply Systems (seat: Grevena)
**Operational Planning of Computer scientist Systems (seat: Grevena)

Students

From 2006 onwards, the Institution has been experiencing severe problems in attracting candidates, due to the implementation of government policy that specified minimum academic requirements for enrolment in undergraduate programmes. As a result of this policy, enrolment has dropped from 4,000 students per year to 2,000. [Citation| last=Pikoulas|first=Georgios
title=Κίνδυνος λουκέτου για ΤΕΙ... φαντάσματα
newspaper=Ethnos
publication-place=Athens, Greece
date=August 28, 2008
year=2008
month=August
url=http://www.ethnos.gr/article.asp?catid=11807&subid=2&pubid=1500638&tag=6126 ] As these enrolment figures represent only 1/3 of the capacity of the institution, questions have been raised as to the viability of the institution. [Citation| last=Papanastasoulis|first=Vassilios
title=Το «10» το... κακό για τα ΤΕΙ
newspaper=Ελευθεροτυπία
publication-place=Athens, Greece
date=August 28, 2008
year=2008
month=August
url=http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,id=54815912 .]

External links

* [http://www.teikoz.gr/ TEI of Western Macedonia]

ee also

*University of Western Macedonia
*List of universities in Greece

References