The issue of the Greek “eternal” students was the focus of the meeting on Wednesday by the the Minister of Education Mr. Andreas Loverdos with Universities Rectors and Presidents of colleges.

Mr. Loverdos announced the definitively deletion of all eternal students on the 31st of August, a declaratory act of the concerned institutions.

However, in order to the above to take place, on the 26th of the month amendments will be tabled in Parliament.

The minister gave a second chance to those “eternal students” who have shown active interest in their studies.

In particular, following the recommendation of the Minister in the meeting, it was decided to provide two additional examination periods for students who have shown active interest in participating in the exam in the last two academic years, 2012-13 and 2013-14.

These students will be eligible to participate in the next two years and complete the exam periods in September and February, while in the same category are included those who have successfully completed their exams in courses, but have dissertations or theses or internships pending.

It is estimated that it concerns about approximately 30,000.

According to the notice of the ministry, the number of “stagnant student” is approximately 120,000 in Universities and 50,000 at TEI ( since the TEI of Athens has already deleted 17,000 from 2007 to today because they did not re enrolled).