This paper focuses on the role of the university as in- service training provider for teachers in Greece. The first part gives a brief account of education in the country, the purpose being to locate the university-provided in-service within a certain framework. Particularly, information is given about the main principles, organisational structure, characteristics, recent developments and reforms, pre- service and in-service teachers' education in Greece in the lights of a United Europe. The second illuminates the in- service training scheme for teachers in universities as this was implemented in two stages, November 1999-February 2000, and December 2000-June 2001, under the Second and Third Community Support Framework respectively. The paper then concentrates on two programmes organised for philologists in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and reports the findings of a research study aimed at evaluating the above in terms of their strong and weak points and learning outcomes. The findings highlight the stimulating and failing aspects of the programmes, such as: the theory-practice gap, the lack of proper organisation and climate fruitful to learning, the higher-secondary education nexus, the breaking from the routine of the school. The paper concludes with a number of suggestions regarding the reorganisation of professional development programmes in universities in Greece.