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On June, 15 the Proposals for the New Education Reforms

A new plan and proposals about the tertiary educational reforms will officially be presented by Anna Diamantopoulou, Education Minister, on June 15. The reforms will be applied in both university (AEI) and technical college (TEI) education systems.
Among the provisions included in the draft law are the closing down and the merger of entire colleges and university departments. There are colleges

costing the state 42,000 euros per student annually, while the tuition at top private Harvard University in the United States costs just over 30,000 euros a year, said Diamantopoulou explaining the necessity of the reforms.
The Minister also added that ”everyone knows that the TEI departments were created without any order or control, because ministers [in the past] would create ten TEI departments to leave their mark on that city, without there being any educational logic behind it”. For this reason, about 24 Tei departments are not going to welcome any new students in September.
At the same time, university rectors and Tei directors are demanding the government to increase state funding.
Further reforms refer to university students,who should be assigned homework, research papers and be required to participate in class discussions. The most controversial proposal will be for students to choose their major after the first year of university.

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