The Minister of Education and Culture will send a letter to the private universities to reduce their tuition fees to last year's levels by the end of the week George Demosthenes, after a relevant opinion he received yesterday from the Attorney General… As the Minister stated answering a relevant question today in Parliament "it is now clear from the position of the Prosecutor that the tuition fees should remain at the level of last year ». There is a clear regulation on the issue in the legislation regarding what should be done, said the Minister of Education, clarifying that he will call on the universities to return to last year, and if they do not comply, as he said, then there are specific sanctions.
"In a time of economic crisis, we must all be sensitive", said in his statements on the subject the Chairman of the Education Committee of the Parliament Nikos Tornaritis, calling in the most formal way the officials who set the tuition fees for our students to be rationalized and to return to the principles of legality ".
Although it is a fact that the quality of education depends on the expenses incurred for the improvement of the logistical infrastructure, he said, however, in the private sector those reflections can be done without sacrificing our students.
On the side of the student movement, the AKEL MP stated George Loukaidis, saying that his party pioneered the creation of the relevant legislation.
"It is not in the context of the economic crisis that this year the owners of private universities can have imposed significant, measurable increases in their tuition, which in our opinion are not justified in any way and are not documented," he said.
He also demanded that the policy of arbitrary increases not be continued.
The DIKO MP Athena Kyriakidou reminded that the issue was registered by the parliamentary group of DIKO for discussion in the Education Committee.
"The increase in tuition was illegal and we welcome the fact that the Attorney General has given an opinion in this right direction," he said, adding that "we ask private universities to bring tuition back to last year's levels because even last year was unbearable for the economy." crisis we are going through ".
Source: KYPE