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Worrying news for universities
Every year, when the University of Shanghai publishes a list of the top 500 universities around the world, here in Greece we are sadly reminded of our pitiable failure in this sector.
This year, just as in previous ones, only two of the country's 18 universities even made it onto the list of 500.
The only encouraging thing to emerge from this is that despite the turbulence which has buffetted the country's higher education system this past year, and despite the efforts of small groups of troublemakers to undermine the higher education institutions... |
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Life after the Games
In the runup to the Athens Olympics, some of us wondered whether there would be life after 2004. The entire country was involved in a gigantic effort to get ready in time for the opening ceremony four years ago. Roads were being constructed, stadiums completed, volunteers trained, the November 17 terror gang dismantled - even the city's notorious taxi drivers were being put through etiquette classes. The latest, massive infusion of European Union funding was programmed to end in 2004. Even the political landscape was undergoing massive change, with PASOK looking certain to lose the spring elections after being in power almost continually from 1981. |
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