Tension was created on Friday morning outside the hotel in Anavyssos, where the Rector’s Council is held. According to police, about 200 people members of student associations who had gathered on the spot attempted to stick posters on a police bus that had a barrier in front of the hotel but the police reacted and repelled them with limited use of chemicals.

According to police, two police officers were injured during the incidents who were taken to first aid at 401 military hospital.

On the occasion of the presence of the Minister of Education, Sofia Zacharakis, at the Summit, the students gathered to protest the regulations of the bill on student deletions and the treatment of violence in universities. Earlier, a student delegation met with the chairman of the meeting, Rector of Panteion University, Christina Koulouris, in which they exposed their views and demands.

Tension at the Rector's Summit

In September, deletions for ‘eternal’ students begin – setting for 35,000 old but active students

It is noted that on Monday at a public meeting universities presented new legislation, which will provide old students who have proven to try to complete their studies one last chance to get their degree.

Specifically, the proposed arrangement stipulates that old students who have completed at least 75% of their curriculum units and have successfully participated in at least two examinations of the last two academic years, will have the right to prolong their attendance for up to two additional semesters. In cases where practical, undergraduate or thesis is required, extension may rise in three semesters.

It is estimated that the Adjustment concerns more than 35,000 old but active students.

Beyond this category, it was reaffirmed that in the forthcoming September will be deleted inactive four-year students who had already exceeded the duration of their programs in the year 2021-22as soon as the four -year grace of the grace that was given was given.

As noted, there are currently students who were enrolled in the 1930s, while the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are tens of thousands.

In this way, among other things, the performance of Greek universities will be improved in many qualitative indicators, as people who seem to be unable to graduate for many years, while releasing administrative staff.

The meeting also examined the final provisions to be made in public consultation on its further shielding Security in public institutionsat the peak of the establishment of a mechanism for imposing criminal and disciplinary sanctions within clear time limits, the enhancement of accountability and the utilization of technology for preventive protection of university spaces.

During the meeting, the prime minister said: “With the provisions we discussed today, a very important reform will essentially be completed immediately, which we had proposed in our program for the new Greek public university, as we realize it.

We are essentially talking about one Significant clearance of the downtime lists of inactive studentsmany of whom are registered in the lists of public universities in the 1950s and 60s.

This clearance of universities’ lists will have very significant benefits to the qualitative characteristics of universities, to evaluation indicators, as for the first time we will have a meaningful picture of what students are really studying.

But I also want to dwell on the very important prediction for one Last chance to those students who have shown that they are interested in completing their studiesbut also in those provisions for students who may, for health reasons, have a distinct, distinct difficulty in completing their curricula.

The arrangement, therefore, is perfectly balanced, but it also implements our central commitment to proceed with a absolutely necessary clearance of the lists of university students, making the distinction between inactive and active students, so that they can do so.

Finally, and on the occasion of the start of the new academic period, to say this: very often young children are coming, they consume which school to choose. I tell them to choose the school they feel that they fit the most, but to make sure, whatever school they choose, to make sure they finish in the scheduled time of the curriculum they have chosen.

And to do that, because life is in front of them. If you have to finish your schedule in four years, why waste time and end in the fifth, the sixth? You will not be able to finish afterwards, anyway.

But this is primarily an obligation of children to themselves. It is not something that the state imposes punishment, but it is an urging in an extremely competitive environment. And since the state provides free public education to our young children, to our young students, and they are consistent in their obligations, but to do so primarily because this is good for themselves, not for us, neither for parents nor for a third party. “

The Minister of Education, Religions and Sports Sofia Zacharakis noted: “President and dear partners, an important day as we will soon be consulted by the final arrangements, with which we serve a deep political dual purpose and principle, the necessary clearance and the necessary clearances and the necessary clearance They are entitled to it and will have it.

However, with the initial reform that the New Democracy government voted in 2021 and now improves, the Greek University can indeed have an exact picture of who they are studying. And of course, how can it better, with increased funding, with other students’ stay, for internationalization and all that we need to do for the public university, to become a practice.

An indispensable step, then, and thank you for the opportunity you give us, so that we can present this improved arrangement to the last chance and the distinction between active and inactive students. “