ASEP: provisional rankings for teachers published

Greece’s Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP) published on Tuesday, 11 August the provisional ranking lists, along with the rejection lists, for two of the year’s largest teacher recruitment calls. These are calls 1GE/2026 and 2GE/2026, which form the lists from which permanent appointments and substitute teachers are drawn for the coming school years. Publication of the lists formally opens the objection stage, ahead of the finalisation of candidates’ ranking.

Call 1GE/2026, published in Government Gazette 21/ASEP issue/29.04.2026, covers specialisations PE60, PE70, PE73 and PE79 — that is, kindergarten teachers, primary school teachers, minority-programme teachers and music education teachers. Call 2GE/2026, under Government Gazette 22/ASEP issue/29.04.2026, covers secondary-education teachers in the university-degree (PE) category. Together the two calls gather tens of thousands of candidates across the country and form the main tool for staffing school units.

Objections can be filed from 08:00 on Wednesday, 12 August to 14:00 on Friday, 21 August, exclusively online via the ASEP website. Filing requires a fee of fifty euros, and late or non-electronic applications are not examined. The deadline is strict and is not automatically extended, which makes it crucial for every candidate to check their details in time, especially those who spot discrepancies in their scoring or who appear on the rejection lists.

Of particular interest is the fact that five traditional-music specialisations under call 1GE have no candidates at all. These are gaida (bagpipe), zournas, Dodecanese lyra, Macedonian lyra and touba — traditional instruments with a limited pool of certified instructors. Similarly, specialisation PE04.03 under call 2GE also remains vacant. These gaps highlight a structural issue for society and education, since the teaching of traditional music depends on a very small pool of specialised staff.

For candidates, the provisional lists give the first clear picture of their position in the ranking and allow for realistic planning ahead of the new school year. Many teachers base decisions on relocation, housing rentals and family planning on this ranking. For schools, the speed of completing the process is directly linked to how promptly vacancies will be filled, an issue that recurs every September in island and mountain areas.

Teachers’ federations have repeatedly called for shorter evaluation cycles and clearer information on scoring criteria, in order to limit the number of objections. ASEP, for its part, applies a predetermined procedure in which the objection is the institutional means of correcting errors. The exact number of candidates included in the lists has not been announced, nor has a timetable for issuing the final results after the objections have been examined.

The next stage is the examination of objections submitted by 21 August and, subsequently, the ratification of the final ranking lists. These will be used to draw substitute-teacher hires and permanent appointments, according to the vacancies determined by the Ministry of Education. Candidates are urged to check their individual profile in detail on the ASEP website and to support every objection with the corresponding supporting documents they had declared.