Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis posted on TikTok on Friday afternoon, January 9, 2025, about the state of Greek public universities. “A few words about Greek public universities as we begin 2026. Two things you need to know and two images I want you to see,” Mitsotakis said initially.
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“In 2025, for the first time, we fulfilled our commitment to remove hundreds of thousands of perpetual students from university registries. To be more precise, 308,000 nominal students – ghost students – were removed from university registries. Also, the end of 2025 finds us without any active occupation in teaching spaces of public universities. We are finally ending a decades-old practice that had severely damaged Greek public universities and moving into a new era,” the Prime Minister emphasized.
Mitsotakis: 2026 will be an even better year for public universities
Kyriakos Mitsotakis then presented images from Athens Law School and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. “The two images I want you to see are a photo from the Law School cafeteria – how it was and how it is today – and a photo from the new library of the Natural Sciences Department at Aristotle University. A space that had been under occupation for many decades was transformed into a real space of knowledge for AUTH students,” Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted.
“This is the image of public universities that we want and for which we are fighting. 2025 was a good year for public universities and 2026 will be even better,” the Prime Minister concluded.
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