Postgraduate courses not always needed, two academics say

[InTime News]

Greek universities person seen a proliferation of postgraduate programs that are not ever indispensable but bash bring successful revenue, two Greek academics person told Kathimerini.

Biologists Nicholas Ktistakis and Thimios Mitsiadis, who person forged distinguished careers successful Cambridge and Zurich, respectively, person taken portion successful implicit 60 assessments of Greek university programs implicit the past 15 years and are presently progressive successful assessing the caller backstage universities successful Greece.

On this second subject, they will lone accidental that there are 10 committees of world evaluators astatine work and that the universities’ certification hinges connected satisfying 11 criteria.

They adhd that nary of the better-known universities globally is expected to unfastened outer campuses successful Greece due to the fact that of the uncertainties involved.

A practice connection with a section state university did not materialize.