Before the sun had risen over Thessaloniki on Wednesday, Stergios Grigoriou and his fellow students had surrounded the Greek metropolis’s main university site and barricaded every entrance to it. One of Europe’s smaller countries, Greece has 24 state universities and more than 600,000 students, in a reflection of how tertiary education is seen as a lever to social mobility. To get there, she says, the country finally has to grapple with the perennial problems that have plagued higher education. And to do that we need to take certain actions.”Niki Kerameus, Greece’s education minister, in parliament. “What we are seeing is part of a long-term conflict between two sides of Greek society.

Source: The Guardian February 11, 2021 05:00 UTC