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The Rector of the University of Athens Theodoros Fortsakis has warned that the institution is facing serious problems due to...

The administrative employees of Greek universities will demonstrate against the government’s ambitious suspension plans, with...

The Rector of the University of Athens Theodoros Fortsakis decided to cancel a senate meeting on Thursday morning, after...

The Propylaea, the central building of the University of Athens in the city center, was the stage of clashes between students...

The University of Athens has launched its massive open online courses platform this month, where users will have free access...

A group of about twenty students interrupted the inauguration ceremony of the new Rector of the University of Athens...

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

While traditional brick-and-mortar stores all over Greece are facing ever-increasing challenges, in 2013 Greek shoppers turned to the Internet in droves...

The ongoing clash between the Senate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and the government-appointed Council escalated last week over the Council’s intervention in departmental elections. Specifically, the Council decided to veto the candidacy of Eleni Karamolegou, head of the Literature department last week because she did not “convince” the Council members. The Council […]

The Deputy Prosecutor of the Supreme Court Vasilis Pliotas forwarded to Parliament the complain report submitted by the administrative employee union of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens regarding the implementation of the controversial suspension measure, which lead to the selection of 1,348 employees for dismissal without any transparent criteria. The union’s complaint report was […]

The Senate of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens has announced that the academic year will last from the 16th of December until the 9th of August and as such, the semester which was considered wasted has been saved. According to the NKUA Senate, each semester requires 13 weeks of teaching plus additional two weeks […]

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 […]

After an extended strike of administrative employees reacting to the Ministry of Education’s suspension and dismissal plans, teaching at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens may have formally begun on the 16th of December, however there is great uncertainty as to whether the semester will be complete. With the reopening of the university departments the […]

With the administrative employees at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens deciding to continue their strike, but allowing everyone else to return to their posts, teaching was expected to resume today. However, student occupations have meant that in many cases, such as the Law School, teaching could not begin. The president of the NKUA Law […]

The university administrative employee strike has entered a new phase, where the board members of the administrative employee union at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens have decided to end the strike against the wishes of the strike committee, which has called a general assembly to discuss the future action. The board issued a statement […]

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 […]