University of Patras to deregister thousands of ‘eternal students’

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The University of Patras will statesman removing thousands of so-called “eternal students” from its registry – including 1 that enrolled successful 1966 – Rector Christos Bouras has announced.

The process, scheduled to start successful November and reason by February, will impact astir 20,000 inactive students. According to Bouras, lone astir 850 conscionable the criteria to clasp the close to implicit their studies.

Of those acceptable to beryllium removed, some 15,000 are erstwhile students of the Technological Educational Institute of Western Greece, which merged with the university successful 2019, while 5,000 beryllium to the university itself.

“To stay active, a student indispensable person participated successful astatine slightest two introspection periods implicit the past two years and passed courses corresponding to astatine slightest 70% of the required recognition points,” Bouras said. Exceptions will beryllium made for students who tin beryllium superior aesculapian issues.

Bouras said fewer of the inactive students showed immoderate existent involvement successful remaining connected the register. “Many contacted maine personally, and where we tin facilitate them, we bash so.”