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A man who introduced himself to the academics of a university in Turkey?s southern province of Isparta as a member of the Turkish National Intelligence Agency (M?T) and allegedly inculcated them about the re-election of the university?s current rector in the elections in a weeks? time, while also using the president?s name, has been detained, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

The University Oxford and the University of Nottingham have applied to a Turkish university in order to become a member of UNESCO's UNITWIN Underwater Archaeology Network.

The government plans to take between 18 months and two years to prepare legislation on tertiary education reforms, it was revealed on Monday.

Thanos Dimopoulos, head of the Athens University?s medical department was elected as the university?s new rector last Friday.

Among the new rector?s top priorities is a demand for new academic appointments and the reversal of the previous government?s mobility scheme regarding administrative staff.

A group of academics reported on the vast rights violations at universities in Turkey, claiming rectors have turned into ?rectotators,? a mixture of a rector and a dictator.

Education Minister Andreas Loverdos (photo) has asked universities and technical colleges not to accept the return of 587 administrative employees who were placed in a labor pool last year.

Rectors representing the country’s largest universities on Wednesday appealed to the government to take immediate action to relieve operational problems at the institutions that have been caused by troika-mandated funding cuts, a rash of student transfers to the big universities and staff cutbacks.

Athens University, Greece’s biggest educational institution, may run out of funds to operate next year, its rector, Theodoros Fortsakis, told a press conference on Monday.

Funding cuts prompted two of the country’s largest universities to appeal Tuesday for state support, noting that the ability of the institutions to continue operating was at stake.

There was another day of tension at Greek universities on Tuesday, with a senior academic resigning in Thessaloniki and students disrupting a senate meeting in the northern city.