The Greek Minister of Education, Mr. Costas Gavroglou, is in Cyprus within the framework of the meeting of the EU Ministers of Education. The minister is expected to pressure his Cypriot counterpart to "put a brake" on the distance learning industry provided by the island's private universities.
As Ta Nea wrote, the issue of legality has arisen for 5.300 postgraduate special education degrees awarded by Cyprus and Italy in previous years to an equal number of Greek teachers with one-year distance learning.
Some teachers have even used them as additional qualifications to move up the relevant rankings and be recruited to special education schools, mainly as substitutes, resulting in the issue of unfair competition to the detriment of holders of other postgraduate degrees…
Mr. Gavroglou has already said that in the case there are "in the best case things that were not studied so much, in the worst case things that are illegal", as the procedures of the Hellenic Open University were not followed for the recognition of these degrees in Greece.
Source: news.in.gr