The Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos gave an interview to Real FM where he explained that the academic semester will not to waste, despite the ongoing strike of university administrative staff.
Mr. Arvanitopoulos claimed that “the universities will open” and that the administrative employee strike “has been found to be illegal by the First Instance Courts of Athens and the Council State rejected their appeal” and argued that the strike “violated the rights of the great majority of students and Greek families”.
The Minister explained that the academic semester will not go to waste, since “only three to four weeks” of teaching have essentially been lost and they can be rescheduled. Mr. Arvanitopoulos argued that “the situation was much more complicated”, citing the strikes and student occupations.
Regarding the rumored civil mobilization of administrative employees, the Minister stated that it would be unnecessary, since “the law gives us the ability to deal with the problem”. Mr. Arvanitopoulos avoided further elaborating on the subject “the teachers and students expressed the will to reopen the universities on Monday and Tuesday and beyond that, now they cannot interrupt the academic operation of the universities”.
