International Hellenic University

Education Minister Costas Gavroglou is pressing on with plans to merge technical colleges (TEIs) with universities despite protests by both teachers and students. 

The move is seen as part of plans by the government to gain popularity in the runup to elections - which are scheduled for October but expected earlier - by appointing new academic staff to the expanded institutions.

Tertiary education in this country has suffered a succession of blows from the leftist-led administration.

The latest casualty of government policy is the International Hellenic University (IHU) in Thessaloniki. Instead of taking steps to upgrade the institution, the Education Ministry went in the opposite direction.

The president of the International Hellenic University (IHU) in Thessaloniki, Costas Grammenos, has resigned following an announcement by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras last week of plans to "partner" the institution with three technical colleges in northern Greece.

This government's obsession with leveling every single initiative, institution or system that has to do with education to the lowest common denominator is unprecedented.

An Education Ministry decision to merge the technical colleges of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace with the International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki has prompted reactions from the IHU's administration.

Higher education in Greece is entering a new era with the introduction of the country's first English-taught four-year undergraduate program at a state university, which will be organized by the University of Athens and the International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki, northern Greece.

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