The rectors of Greek Higher Educational Institutions (AEI) said they will refuse to provide government officials with the names of people who could be suspended or fired as part of a scheme to shed public workers.
The decision came at AEI’s 73d meeting that was held on the island of Corfu with angry rectors stating they will not answer the document sent by the Ministry of Education asking for the names of those who would be paid 75 percent of their already reduced salaries for up to eight months and then fired if another job can’t be found for them.
“Any kind of suspension of administrative employees in AEI jeopardizes their function, targeting to one of the most competitive and productive institutions of the national development, the Public University,” they said.
“The Meeting invites all the academic community’s members to a joint action, so that they will not allow the Universities’ dissolution, and undertakes to inform the Greek society,” the rectors stated.
“At this conjuncture that the problems of the higher education are common for all of the Universities, the Meeting decided to proceed to its institutional organization in a single body in order to deal with these problems more resolutely,” they added.
They said that the changes that the Education Ministry suggests in the bill for the New Lyceum are deadlocked, while they stressed “the need to maintain the unity of the whole university community.”
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