Academic Innovations
North College was the first and only Institution of Higher Education in Greece, both in the Independent and/or Public sector, which introduced and operated Journalism Studies Courses in 1977.
That innovation enabled first graduates students to be fully and unconditionally accepted by American and British Universities for post-graduate studies.
Until 1990 the Greek state Universities ignored the Media Studies courses. Since then, the dominant notion was that the media professions were, merely, skill-oriented and thus, it was not necessary for journalists etc. to study for a degree.
All the media professionals were self-taught or graduates of irrelevant degrees such as lawyers, mathematicians, psychologists or, even just, high school graduates.
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