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From: Rania Astrinaki [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Dear colleagues,
I would like to ask your help on a very important issue.
The Greek government is passing a university Reform Bill, while universities are closed for holidays and the whole academic community is against it. This Bill demolishes what we know as university, academic disciplines, research, knowledge production and reproduction and academic freedom. It promulgates an authoritarian military-like administrative and academic model, which is the worst imaginable blend of Bologna process and which transforms university education into college training and the university itself into a corporation. A board of administrators, half from without the academy and half from within, will decide on all matters and will link directly "academic" education to the market, distributing funds to the more profitable knowledge sectors. If you take into consideration that university funds are cut by 50% already, you can imagine that not much of it will survive unless tuition fees are imposed, a move forbidden however by the Greek Constitution, which guarantees free higher education for all. Departments and their academic role are abolished and replaced by "teams of teachers" of unspecified disciplinary constitution, who will be "teaching machines" with no say as to how their curriculum will be constructed. As for social science and humanities, I am afraid that not much will be left of it.
For all these reasons, we are launching a petition to the international academic community to support our struggle against the Bill. Below you will find two links. In the first, you can find a summary of what is going on and you can sign by sending an email. The second is an ordinary petition with little information. You just get in and sign.
http://supportgreekacademia.wordpress.com/
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?GRUNIV
Please give us some of your time, please sign it and pass it around.
Thank you in advance
Best regards,
Urania Astrinaki
Lecturer of Social Anthropology,
Panteion University Athens
Erella Grassiani, PhD| Sociology Dept. Faculty of Social Sciences| VU University
de Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam
visiting address: Metropolitan building, Buitenveldertse laan 3, room Z-509, ph. (31)(0)20-59882680
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