The rectors of the universities will hold an extraordinary meeting today, in the wake of the student occupations. Questions for student exams.
In extraordinary session university chancellors are proceeding today, Monday (29/1), amid sit-ins against the establishment of private universities and uncertainty about student exams of the semester, issues will also be under the microscope of the debate.
At the meeting, alternative solutions for conducting them will be examined, and above all the possibility to be done remotelyas the Ministry of Education has proposed in its circular.
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The remote intervention of the Minister of Education is expected, Kyriakou Pierrakakiwho will also refer to the financing of higher education and university budgets, as well as their institutional liberation from the state
These proposals seem to be accepted already by some universities. “The circular of the Minister of Education on the digital conduct of exams in the schools that are currently occupied can help significantly to complete the process and not lose the semester”the rector of the University of Peloponnese, Thanasis Katsis, has told APE-MPE.
According to the circular of the Ministry of Education, electronic exams are expressly provided for, when it is impossible to carry out the evaluation of students in person or to use the infrastructure of the HEI to carry out the examination process.
The law provides, however, that the decision is taken by the authorities of the institutions, as imposed by the local government.
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The government is confused
The massiveness of the agitations against private universities has embarrassed the government, which targeted students and rectory authorities.
Last Friday, the First Instance Prosecutor’s Office ordered urgent preliminary examination for University admissionswhile the government representative intended for repressive treatment of mobilizations.
At the same time, the Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis threatened the rector’s authorities for the case that the electronic examination process does not proceed: “I personally believe that when a chancellor disagrees with the electronic course examination process and at the same time refuses to bring the police to the university to solve the occupation, that is, not taking measures in either direction, there he could the Ministry of Education to investigate other ways, such as the issue of university funding”, he said among other things.