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The draft law of the Ministry of Education entitled "University of Ioannina, Ionian University and other provisions" is discussed Friday by the competent committee of Parliament. The bill fits into the restructuring of government in higher education, applying the guidelines of the European Union and the "toolbox" of the OECD that wants universities and research are fully tied to business profitability and capitalist growth.
The bill provides for the merger of TEI from Epirus with the University of Ioannina and the TEI of the Ionian Islands with the Ionian University. According to the Minister of Education Gavroglou, giving the mark of the bill, "Epirus acquires a grid of higher education functions, closely related to development needs, initiatives and priorities from Epire, not only because of new departments and new schools, it is agriculture, but also because of semester curricula, research institutes and, of course, synergies that we will be communicating slowly, which will also be done with other similar activities, in Zakynthos with the water park.As noted, mergers from the University of Thessaly will follow with TEI from Thessaly and TEI from Sterea, University of Peloponnese and Institute of Technological Education of Peloponnese, University of Patras with TEI of Western Greece and TEI of Thessaloniki, International University of Thessaloniki with TEI of Mac Eastern and Central Era
The KKE's special chairman, Yiannis Delis expressing his disagreement (voted against) by the bill, pointed out that the bill "is another step in the fight against corruption." development of the new map of higher education, its new spatial planning, a project that began with the founding of Attica West of course, with the so-called synergies between institutions; higher education and the rest of the country. "
He noted that the objective, besides the immediate budgetary constraint, was" to further adapt the Greek higher education in terms of its structure and content, to the needs of enterprises, the capitalist profitability "and that these are a continuation of the interventions initiated by the previous anti-government governments of the ND and PASOK
mergers follow the" best practices "of the OECD, which were included in the memoranda since 2013, and thus lead to "for the same scientific subject that there should be a lot and categorization of diplomas of graduates and departments to ensure a certified qualified workforce in the qualifications and the qualifications required by its capital and plans. "
Emphasizing the reactionary nature of these reforms, he called on the government to respond if the mergers it favored would be" the cost of studies, will support for students be strengthened? Will the current functioning of institutions with commercial criteria be abolished? Will the content of the studies be strengthened so that the scientist involves more and more in his scientific subject? Will the unemployment of the graduates be reduced and will one find work on the subject of his studies with rights? Will it be enough to get a job or continue to require postgraduate certificates, expensive training and so much more. Will the research in the research centers of the two institutions concern the needs of the population and will the researchers' employment be with full labor and insurance rights? ", Without answering
The bill voted against ND and PASOK. administrative reasons, since the main question of these arrangements was agreed. As an indication, the rapporteur ND An. Karamanlis considered that, as mergers promote, "they do not meet the modern needs of the economy". The Golden Dawn criminal Nazi, while welcoming the provisions of the bill, voted against Article 30 on the provision of hostels for migrants
