Tertiary students’ transfers from one institution to another for the 2013-2014 academic year  is up in the air as a plenary of the Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, deemed the legislative framework that facilitated these to be unconstitutional.

This means all the transfers have been canceled. The unprecedented decision ruling the transfer regime as illegal means that students will need to return to the schools they had initially entered, according to results of nationwide college entrance exams.

Tertiary institutions themselves will have the responsibility of accepting transfers (10% of the student body for each academic year) with two categories of students’ considered: (a) those with health problems, (b) those with proven financial difficulty based on social criteria (e.g. large-membered families, orphans, etc.)

The chief justice of the Council of State, Sotiris Rizos, cited in an opinion that the legislative framework that went into effect last year was unconstitutional, hence justifying two university administrations and 115 professors who filed an appeal against the framework law.