THE lifelong teaching constitutes the now an exclusive option for completing the spring semester and taking the June exams is emphasized in a decision taken by the Senate of the University of Macedonia during its meeting today.

“The end of the occupation came precisely at the moment when the continuation of remote teaching and work had brought the educational process as well as the research and administrative function of the University to a limit state” is stated in the decision, noting that “with our return to now an open University and with the ultimate goal of safeguarding the long-term prestige of the Institution, any other option is now not only undesirable, but also absolutely impossible”.

The members of the Senate note that despite the reservations and objections that were expressed, the framework for the operation of non-profit branches of foreign universities is now a law of the State, but “the required honest and thorough exchange of views between the State and the University Community did not take place” and furthermore ” with the Universities occupied and essentially closed, any dialogue inside the University became essentially impossible”, as “teachers, workers and students were deprived of the possibility of discussion and reflection, for a law concerning the future of Higher Education”.

In this context, the Senate notes: “We have repeatedly emphasized the painful effects of the occupation on the academic and administrative function, we faced the conduct of the exams with the forced and exceptional choice of distance exams, we worked as an Administration but also operated the services of the University by telecommuting, at administrative and personal cost, we showed, despite our vertical disagreement, the greatest possible tolerance for extreme choices, because we put forward the long-term interest of the Foundation, the preservation of its reputation and its operation, as a point of reference”.