Emergency meeting of University Rectors: They will request an extension of the deadline for the deletion of “eternal students”

An Emergency Meeting of University Rectors has been convened for today, November 3, 2025, astatine 16:00.

Participation volition beryllium online, chaired by the Rector of the University of Thessaly, Professor Charalambos Billinis. The Rector of the University of Piraeus, Professor Michalis Sfakianakis and the Rector of the University of the Aegean, Professor Dimitrios Papageorgiou implicit the creation of the caller presidium of the Meeting.

The crushed for calling the Emergency Meeting is the upcoming pupil deletions, which indispensable beryllium completed by December 31, 2025 based connected the applicable ministerial decision, and past Universities indispensable nonstop the lists of deleted students to the Directorate of Higher Education.

The Rectors are expected to petition an hold of this deadline until indispensable applicable details are completed, specified arsenic installation of the required software, according to reliable accusation from the world sector. “We are not going to bypass the law, we volition proceed with deletions normally, arsenic the instrumentality defines. Before that, however, we indispensable exhaust each anticipation of attracting arsenic galore students arsenic imaginable to scope their degree, arsenic good arsenic settee immoderate applicable issues specified arsenic the cognition of the required software” they stress, without yet specifying the further clip they volition request. In immoderate case, the extremity of the Emergency Meeting is to find a communal enactment for each Universities, truthful they volition past petition an hold for a circumstantial play from the Ministry of Education.

Aside from the contented of deletion of “eternal students”, the Meeting volition besides item the request to enactment the Rector of NTUA, Professor Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou, pursuing the constabulary involution connected 14/10 successful the concern of the School of Architecture and the apprehension of 15 students. According to what Rector Chatzigeorgiou told protothema.gr: “I applied the law.” His connection is afloat aligned with the earlier announcement supporting him, a associated inaugural of the Rectors of the University of Patras and the University of Crete. Similar enactment is expected to beryllium requested for the Rector of the Technical University of Crete, Professor Michalis Zervakis, pursuing disciplinary prosecutions against students.