Technological Educational Institute of Athens
defunct tertiary education institute in Greece
The Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Athens (TEI ATH; Greek: Ανώτατο Τεχνολογικό Εκπαιδευτικό Ίδρυμα Αθήνας, Anótato Technologikó Ekpaideutikó Ídryma Athínas) was a state higher-educational institute in Athens for the applied sciences.
Founded in 1983, it originated from one of the first five Centres for Higher Technical Education (Greek: Κέντρα Ανώτερης Τεχνικής Επαγγελματικής Εκπαίδευσης, Κ.Α.Τ.Ε.Ε., romanized: Kéntra Anóteris Technikís Epaggelmatikís Ekpaídeusis) initially established in 1974. It offered a wide range of undergraduate and some (level 7) postgraduate studies.
On 1 March 2018, the institute merged with the ΤΕΙ of Piraeus; the merged organization became a University Institution, the newly established University of West Attica (Greek: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής).
History
The institute was originally one of the first five KATE (Centers for Higher Technical Education, later KATEE) founded in Greece in 1974 to offer non-university technical and vocational programmes. In 1983, the KATEE were dissolved and Technological Educational Institutes were established as self-governed, multi-disciplinary, technology-oriented state funded institutions and are equal to the Greek universities. The TEI of Athens was the largest of Greece's TEIs, with 33 departments, 1,181 teaching staff and 16,288 students enrolled in 1986-87.
Academic profile
Campus
Located in Aegaleo municipality, in the western part of Athens, the campus occupied an extended area, comprising the central administrative services and most of the facilities. This is currently the Egaleo Park Campus of the University of West Attica.
Faculties and departments
The TEI of Athens offered more than 35 undergraduate degrees ranging from Management and Economics to Applied Sciences and Engineering.
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