Jobs in FOREVER AND EVERhow did they appear at the time of the announcement import bases this year. The departments have already decided to “lower” their debt burden. minimum import base (MBA)foreseeing that more of their positions will be filled in 2023, and in the next period it is expected that there will be a flurry of similar decisions in a number of departments, in particular in Athens and Thessaloniki.

In particular, due to the EBE, about 11,000 positions were left vacant in university faculties out of an estimated 72,000 positions that were identified by the Ministry of Education and related ministries. However, if vacancies were expected at low-demand faculties of the region, as happened last year – the first year of the introduction of UBE, then this year the vacancies at the faculties of central universities and the humanities were surprised. It is significant that 97 and 95 positions remained vacant in the Philology of Athens and Thessaloniki, respectively, more than 100 in the Philosophy of Ioannina and 56 in the Philosophy of Athens. At the Symbolic Faculty of Philology of Athens, 55% of the seats were filled. In total, out of 11,000 vacancies, 2060 are in the faculties of Athens and Thessaloniki, and most of them are in the faculties of a little-demanded humanitarian direction: 127 in theology, EKPA, 123 in social theology, 114 in religion, EKPA, 103 in philosophy. AUTH Pedagogy, 101 in AUTH’s Department of Muslim Studies.

The presence of vacancies in the humanities faculties is primarily associated with a decrease in the interest of 18-year-olds due to high unemployment in these faculties. At the same time, departments are also “responsible”, as they have chosen a high rate to determine their EBE. Recall that the UPE for each department is obtained from the average performance of candidates in the scientific field, which includes the department, multiplied by a coefficient from 0.8 to 1.2. If the department chooses a coefficient from 0.8 to 0.99 to form the EVO, then it “reduces” the average indicator, and vice versa, if it chooses from 1.01 to 1.2, then the average indicator increases.

2060 vacancies concern the faculties of Athens and Thessaloniki and especially the faculties of the humanities.

So, now professors of departments with vacant positions are preparing to reduce their rates. Characteristically, this was decided by the department of philosophy of the ECPA, which had a coefficient of 1.1 for this year’s Panhellenic Trials, and on Friday decided to lower it to 1. According to the ministerial decision, the departments must change the coefficient they have chosen by the end of August, although it is considered likely that reasonable extension.

As he explained, spoke to “K” yesterday, Deputy President of the Athens Faculty of Philosophy Georgios Steiris, the decline in interest in the humanities should be a cause for concern. Especially since the escape from the liberal arts is also due to the fact that 18-year-olds are unaware of the alternative careers that a liberal arts degree can open up if they specialize through a master’s degree.

On the other hand, according to Mr. Steiris, chronic distortions are caused by the tactics of the Ministry of Education, which does not take into account the proposals of departments on the number of their admissions. Revealingly, this year the universities requested 44,000 positions, and the ministry ended up appointing 69,000 (excluding police and army school positions). Thus, it is possible that in some departments with vacant positions, the number of filled posts is equal to what, in the opinion of the professors, they can prepare.

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Illusory “appearance” and true “being”

Marisa Fundopoulou*

The number of students admitted this year, for those who read them one-sidedly, in their entirety, with a narrow ideological view and with the intent to distort reality, shows that there were vacancies – about 11,000 – at the expense of the UBE. The “appearance” of numbers is as follows. However, the “existence” of vacancies is not related to the establishment of UBEs by the ministry, but to how UBEs are solved by departments of universities, which, having determined the coefficient for UBEs, also determined the actual number of students who demand high academic performance and leave places vacant.
In the context of their independence, proper service to science, quality rather than quantity, full and effective response of the teaching staff of universities to their teaching and research duties, the country’s universities took advantage of the opportunity provided to them by the Minister of Education, and they proposed to increase the level of teaching at the university according to compared with mild and least effort.

More broadly, 11,000 vacancies, down from the 17,000 vacancies in 2021, would be flippantly assessed as a loss of learning opportunity unless considered with the type of research to which they relate, such as in fields with a large supply . , but less demand, so as to portend tomorrow’s unemployed graduates.

A typical example is the so-called “pedagogical” schools, which replenish secondary education, which is increasingly declining, mainly due to low birth rates. If we add to this a large number of graduates of the same subject, since there are educational specialties such as PO02, which come from 15 university departments throughout the country, then the impossibility of their professional rehabilitation becomes obvious.

The government’s attempt to rationalize university admissions in the country is indeed serious and necessary if we accept it without ideological attachments and obsessions. In addition, in combination with the new law on higher education and the opportunities offered to male and female students for parallel/multiple study programs, it radically rethinks and modernizes what has worked so far in the direction of emphasizing qualities.

* Ms. Mariza Fundopoulu is a professor at EKPA.

New challenges for philosophers.

Vasilis K. Gunaris

I know the political part of the discussion: children were not taken to universities, especially in the field of the humanities and social sciences, but there were positions. I also know the opposite, and from my own bitter experience: candidates with an unsuitable level for studying within the agreed time frame were eliminated from the university. But there is another parameter: the number of candidates in the humanities and social sciences, including law, has gradually decreased from 26,000-27,000 in 2017-2018 to 18,000 this year. I might add that their performance was disappointing, but it may have been indirect, i.e. they would be better if they weren’t tested in Latin or if the material was even shorter.

I think the message is clear – and it’s not about cutting back on exam material and abolishing UBE so everyone learns, and it’s not about learning forever so young people find their way over time. The message is that schools of thought—and other institutions—must rethink their purpose. The notion that “the labor market will not dictate curricula” was justified. This is evidenced by the numbers of candidates. Link to professional rights – whose rights really are? Demographics say so. The number of students is declining. The idea that we will continue, as always, as if nothing had happened, to apply for new teaching positions in old subjects, is also untenable. We are accountable to the state and citizens who pay taxes because our students do not graduate and our graduates do not work.

University departments, under the new law, now have the option but also the obligation to offer blended studies to provide additional qualifications beyond “pure science”. Will they dare? If they don’t, schools of philosophy will shrink even further and, worse, will increasingly attract disinclined students who view the humanities and social sciences as a solution to a necessity, not an opportunity.

* Mr. Vassilis K. Gounaris is a professor in the philosophy department of AUTH.