Presidents and board members of the councils of Greek universities have handed in their resignations en masse to the Education Ministry in protest against the decision by Deputy Education Minister Sia Anagnostopolou to arbitrarily prolong their tenures on the councils for one more year. Members and heads of the councils in the universities of Athens, Thessaloniki and Macedonia made it dear in their letters of resignation that their decision was reached due to the fact that the Ministry had not clarified its intentions on the future of the councillor institution. They accuse the current political leadership of trying to disdain the councillor institution by putting its future on hold. The members argue that instead of proclaiming new electoral proceedings for the renewal of the councils’ boards, whose term ended on August 31, the Ministry chose to extend their terms until August 2017. It is the second time the Ministry has backtracked after Minister Filis introduced an amendment Tuesday night on the abolition of legislation that compelled students to register every 6 months if they wanted to continue their studies, essentially reintroducing the ‘eternal students’ status.