The educational bill aims to do away with a decades-old malaise “and give our children and professors and the academic community the university they deserve,” Education Minister Niki Kerameus said on Wednesday, ANA reports.
During a plenary debate preceding its voting, Kerameus listed the issues that haunt higher education in Greece today as follows:
– Admission to universities without academic qualifications, with grades of 1, 2, or 3 out of 20
– The admission of candidates to departments the applicants have put down randomly, without any care
– The fact that over 40 percent of university students have been enrolled for an unknown number of years
– The false assumption that the only educational development consists of a university degree, and
– Violence on university campuses.
Kerameus continued, “We cannot accept professors keeping silent under the fear that specific groups in the university will react. We cannot accept the public humiliation of deans.” She said the proposal for campus police was introduced to leave legal violations to police jurisdiction. “It’s not the dean’s job to chase after the guy selling drugs, the guy throwing wooden planks, the guy who makes firebombs. It’s not his job to deal with this.”
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