Rectors ask for vote on bill to be delayed
Six university rectors yesterday asked the government to delay the parliamentary vote on the education reform bill as the academic community debates whether it will support the changes. MPs are due to vote on the bill next week but the rectors want more time to examine the implications of the reforms. «The essence of the changes, which is directly relevant to the reorganization and the future of studies and our degrees… and the job opportunities for our graduates, has not been examined properly,» the rector of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Constantine Moutzouris, told Kathimerini. The rectors of Panteion University as well as the universities of Patras, the Aegean, Ioannina and Crete backed the NTUA’s call for more time. The rectors’ move will disappoint the government, which wants to pass the bill through Parliament as quickly as possible in the hope of dampening the vociferous opposition from university students and teachers.
