The chancellors of the universities are holding an extraordinary meeting today, Monday, in order to examine alternative solutions for conducting student exams of the semester and above all the possibility to do it remotely, as the Ministry of Education has proposed in its circular.

He will remotely intervene in the meeting the Minister of Education Kyriakos Pierrakakis, which is expected to also address higher education funding and university budgets, as well as their institutional liberalization from the state.

According to the ministry, distance exams are the only way not to lose the exam period, while in order to remove these reservations, the Minister of Education will submit a series of technical proposals that, as pointed out, will ensure the process.

These proposals seem to be accepted already by some universities. “The circular of the Minister of Education for the digital conduct of exams in the schools that are under occupation can help significantly to complete the process and not lose the semester”, the rector of the University of Peloponnese, Thanasis, has characteristically stated to APE-MPE Sit down.

According to the circular of the Ministry of Education, electronic exams are expressly provided for when it is impossible to carry out the assessment of students in person or to use the infrastructure of the HEI to conduct the examination process. The law provides, however, that the decision is made by the authorities of the institutions as imposed by the local government.