Rector

The title of professor, which was once necessary to be eligible for appointment as a rector at Turkish universities, was nulled in the latest emergency decree ruling on July 9.

Instances of violence and lawlessness at 16 Greek universities have sharply increased in recent years, reaching 53 in 2017, according to data compiled by the rector of the University of Macedonia, Achilleas Zapranis.

Only three state universities in Turkey have women rectors, despite women making up 43.58 percent of all academics in the country, daily Habertürk reported on Jan. 9.

Patra University Rector Venetsana Kyriazopoulou on Thursday condemned the violent interruption of a meeting of department chiefs earlier in the day.

The new academic year starts at Sofia University. Before the official ceremony, scheduled for 10:00, the rector of Alma Mater Prof. Anastas Gerdjikov and the members of the Academic Council will bring flowers to the monuments of Evlogi and Hristo Georgiev. Official guest to the opening will be President Rumen Radev, reports iNews. 

The former head of Turkey's top religious body is planning to become a university rector after he resigned from his post on July 30, Hurriyet writes.

They learned the art of bullying at the Polytechnic and at university, where there were no rules. They stopped lessons whenever they felt like it, staged occupations, created hangouts that were unchecked, passed lessons with threats. They saw that they could get away with it and continued down this road as members of a small political party.

An employee of Thessaly University was injured on Tuesday when a group of protesters forced their way into the institution's rectorate due to a dispute over two buildings that are being used as squats.

University rectors, who held an emergency meeting Monday, voiced disapproval of the government's proposed changes to tertiary education. The rectors are against the provisions regarding immunity within university grounds, postgraduate studies, the scrapping of differences between universities and technical colleges, and the election of professors via secret ballots.

Students at Istanbul's prestigious Boğaziçi University have staged a protest against its appointed rector at their graduation ceremony.