Solely 7.02% (22,271) of the 317,374 so-called “everlasting” college students at Greek universities have proven as much as take even a single examination since a regulation offering for his or her being struck off the rolls was voted in 2022.
The cutoff date is September 2025 and even a number of the 22 plus thousand may very well be struck off if they’re too many credit in need of a diploma. College directors say that the one-size-fits-all rule for expulsion is just too extreme and that particular person circumstances ought to be thought of, with the schools, not the Ministry of Training, having the ultimate say. However, thus far, solely 30 college students have petitioned to be given an additional probability as a consequence of hardship points.
Nevertheless, the statistics of “everlasting” college students are skewed by the presence of people that have died since. The oldest pupil nonetheless on the registry of the Athens College of Economics and Enterprise entered the varsity in 1933 and there’s a pupil matriculating in 1938 nonetheless on the rolls of the College of Athens.
The variety of college students slated for the chop subsequent September embrace solely these in four-year programs. These on the rolls of five- or six-year programs, as within the engineering and medical colleges, will face their reckoning in 2026 and 2027.
