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  • January 25, 2024
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Thousands of people they showed up this Thursday in major cities GreeceTo third time this yearcontrary to the Conservative government’s plans to create private universities for the first

Thousands of people they showed up this Thursday in major cities GreeceTo third time this yearcontrary to the Conservative government’s plans to create private universities for the first time in the country.

Nails 5000 people They marched in the center Athens Other demonstrations also took place in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki, and other cities across the country, police said.

“The reason for the war for us, We will fight for free education“, shouted students in Athens, joined by students and the secondary school teachers’ union. (OLME) and primary (ME) who announced that they would stop working in order to be able to participate in the mobilization.

three universities from Athens busy with studentsas well as dozens of departments at other academic institutions across the country.

“No to private universities” – Valuable titles – Free research“, can be read on the banner that students raised in front of the Greek Parliament building in Syntagma Square.

Prime Minister, Conservative Kyriakos Mitsotakis, promised in the election campaign Last June, when it won an absolute majority, it said it was going to push for the creation of private universities in Greece.

Photo: Reuters – Greek Prime Minister: Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Government Representative, Pavlos Marinakisdescribed in the press today as “sad minorities” to protesters who “react to everything” because they don’t want the country to move forward.

Although private higher education institutions already exist in the Hellenic country, they degrees are not at the same level as in public universities.

This will change with the government’s proposed bill, which will be put to parliament for a vote at the end. FebruaryMarinakis explained today.

According to Education Minister Kyriakos Pierakakis, the law will create “non-state, non-profit” universities and will allow the creation of “branches” of recognized foreign educational institutions only under “strict conditions”.

Critics fear the law will lead to further degradation of public universitiestaking into account, among many factors, the low salaries of teachers who could move to private educational institutions.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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