“Article 16 needs to be changed because, in addition to the establishment of non-state universities, we must also see today the establishment universities. This is what we wish to achieve. To maximize social mobility. We cannot hide behind our fingers and not see that there are 40 thousand Greek students abroad or that dozens of colleges with professional rights operate in our country. We don’t have any more time to waste,” he said characteristically during his closing statement to the educational affairs committee of the Parliament during the discussion of the bill that allows the establishment of branches of foreign universities in Greece.
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“From the discussion it appears that our disagreement is fundamental and concerns the question: can the country wait or not. We have been discussing the same issue for 50 years now. The country must be on the move. This is what the government believes, the people who supported it, the prime minister and the leadership of the Ministry of Education”, he noted characteristically, pointing out: “we remain in a rearguard battle. Do we have to wait for the 5th or 6th industrial revolution to make the necessary changes? “Totem and taboo is the place of complete prohibition.”
Especially to the SYRIZA MPs he said “under your own government, every year you have reduced the funding of education. I’m not saying you did it because you wanted to. These were the fiscal possibilities of the country. But pointing the finger at us when we have increased funding by 50% goes a long way. Tuition is bothering you. Did you cut tuition fees in graduate schools while you were governing?’
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