Our regulation will increase educational opportunities, it will give the possibility of repatriation or reduce the exit to a very large part of Greeks who want to study abroad while it will give our country the opportunity to become a regional center of education in our wider region, said the Mr. Peirrakakis also citing the relevant example of Cyprus.
He even emphasized that “we don’t need to constantly have a logic of protectionism because protectionism will not protect us. It will protect us to open up […] So we need to structure our new strategy, “not in terms of decades back, but in terms of 2050”, said the Minister of Education. The country, he pointed out, should participate in the revolution of technology, ideas and the big changes that are coming because “you either plan the future or you live with it. And we have been experiencing it in recent years. It’s time to plan it. And because in this law, especially regarding the first 176 articles (out of a total of 205), there is too much that we can agree on, I invite you to agree and design them together, despite any disagreements, said Mr. Pierrakakis .
In particular, the Minister of Education said that today we have 40 thousand Greek students abroad, an amount disproportionate to our population, while in Cyprus, where the extroversion of higher education was decided, this was done in the logic of the parties’ consensus. He even emphasized that in Greece there is already a reality “that we pretend doesn’t exist”: We have 33 colleges, with 32 thousand students, that give full professional rights. Why; Was it a decision of Parliament? No. We have been dragged by the EU jurisprudence, observed Mr. Peirrakakis, adding that, apart from the so-called academic right, everything else has already been solved and it is a festival of hypocrisy to pretend that we do not see it. This happened in our absence, because we remained in ideological originalism, said Mr. Pierrakakis, underlining that this “El Dorado” in higher education must be regulated.
The meeting began on a high note, with opposition representatives berating the government for introducing an “unconstitutional” that should be withdrawn.
The Constitution stipulates that higher education is provided exclusively by NPDD, under the supervision of the state, pointed out SYRIZA-PS MP D. Kalamatianos, even speaking of state diversion, with his colleague P. Polakis saying that the government sends customers to its financiers.
The KKE member of parliament, Afr. Comb.
The government is bringing an unconstitutional bill that causes shocks in society, said Hellenic Solution MP K. Boubas.
The bill violates the Constitution and constitutes a state crisis, said the MP of the New Left, M. Tzoufi.
We will file a petition of unconstitutionality in the plenary, said KO MP Niki Sp. Tsironis.
We consider the bill unconstitutional and ask that it be withdrawn, said the parliamentarian of Freedom of Navigation S. Bibilas.
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