Pelegrinis

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The School of Philosophy at the University of Athens has announced that it will suspend its operations due to the ongoing lack of cleaning...

The decision of the School of Law to announce that it has considered the current semester to have been wasted has caused a number of other departments and schools in the universities to consider following suit. Some, such as the School of Theology, have decided to have teaching of both semesters consecutively with one examination […]

The Rector Synod which is taking place in Thessaloniki continues today with the discussion and debates focused on the financed and operation problems related to the Ministry of Education’s suspension plans. In the evening the Rectors will hold a press conference to report their findings and conclusions. Today’s discussions are focused on the financial problems […]

The Rector of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens called an emergency Senate meeting for this morning, as the situation at the university is getting out of hand. While some administrative employees have returned to their posts, particularly in central services and more expected to return over the next days, the strike continues. The administrative […]

Despite the efforts to come to an agreement in recent days, the administrative employees at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens are continuing their strike, while their colleagues at the National Technical University have decided to suspend their strike and take up the Ministry of Education’s offer to negotiate. According to Ta Nea, the Ministry […]

Despite not being able to resolve the university administrative employee strike that will enter its 14th consecutive week on Monday, the Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos has the full support of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. Meanwhile, the strikers at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens decided to extend their strike until Monday. The university administrative […]

The administrative employees of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens are holding meetings today to discuss the future of their strike, in light of yesterday’s fruitless meeting with the Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos and the failed attempt to suspend NKUA Rector Theodosis Pelegrinis. At yesterday’s meeting, the […]

The Rector of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens Theodosis Pelegrinis, who is being referred to the Supreme Disciplinary Council by the Ministry of Education, spoke in the university’s main building at Propylaea, where he expressed his “awe for the strike of these people who give their blow to save their flesh”. Mr. Pelegrinis added […]

The Senate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens will convene today in order to discuss the Ministry of Education’s request to suspend the University’s Rector Theodosis Pelegrinis until he is referred to the Disciplinary Council. It is highly unlikely that the Senate will approve the Ministry’s request. Later in the day the Rector will […]

The sudden decision of the Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos to refer the Rector of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens Theodosis Pelegrinis to the Supreme Disciplinary Council on misconduct charges has caused uproar in the academic world. The “Meeting of University Teachers” academic forum dubbed the Minister’s move “desperate and appalling” and demanded that […]

With the administrative employees at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens deciding to continue their strike for a 13th consecutive week, essentially wasting the academic semester, the Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos has found himself under pressure from the government to take the necessary initiatives and resolve this […]

The Minister of Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos met last night with the board of the Rector Synod, which is comprised of the Rectors Mylopoulos of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Tsartas of the University of the Aegean and Anagnostopoulos of the Harokopio University of Athens. After a three-hour meeting, the two sides agreed to form a […]

With the Ministry of Education under pressure from the Prime Minister and unwilling to negotiate, the striking university administrative employees have controversially decided to extend their strike for another 48 hours, with the intention of extending the strike next week as well. The strike of the administrative employees at the University of Athens and the […]

The decision of the university administrative employees to extend their strike for an eleventh consecutive week has had a serious impact on the University of Athens, with the members of the Senate handing over their resignations to Rector Theodosis Pelegrinis. The senate members protested against the government suspension program and the threat of a police […]

The rector of the University of Athens Theodosis Pelegrinis was invited by VimaFM to comment on the recent developments in education and the prolonged strike of university administrative employees. Mr. Pelegrinis explained that the Senate has decided that the University must reopen and teaching must resume “if the administrative employees allow it”. The Rector noted […]

With the strike of university administrative employees continuing for the eighth consecutive week, the Rector of the University of Athens Theodosis Pelegrinis clarified that he has requested from the relevant university services to dock the wages of striking staff. Meanwhile, the Senate of the University of Athens issued an announcement addressed to the President of […]

The Federation of Administrative Staff in Higher Education (ODPTE) had filed a complaint against the Minister of Administrative Reform Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Education Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos. The administrative employees are demanding that the Minister suspend the deadline for submitting their details in order to carry out the evaluation and suspensions. The federation claims that the Ministers’ […]

The leader of the Opposition Alexis Tsipras attended an event on the consequences of the suspensions on public universities and society which was organized by the unions of teaching and administrative staff of the University of Athens and the National Technical School of Athens at the main hall at Propylaea. The Rector of the University […]