Η πρώιμη μεταρρύθμιση: Το νομοσχέδιο Τσάτσου-Ευρυγένη για τη μεταρρύθμιση της ανώτατης εκπαίδευσης (1974-75)

Abstract

The present study deals with the first attempt to reform the Greek Higher Education System after the collapse of the Dictatorship. In the beginning of the 3rd Greek Democracy 

(1974-1975), two Committees, constituted by influential Greek intellectuals and coordinated by Professor Dimitrios Tsatsos and Professor Dimitrios Eurygenis, edited and promoted a Draft of a Proposed Law, entitled Organization and Operation of the Institutions of Higher Education’. This Draft aimed at the reconstruction and the ‘liberation’ of the Greek Universities. Its focal points were:
• the legitimization of the participation of each interest group (including students) in the decision-making process;
• the institutional consolidation of the ‘academic asylum’;
• the provision of the students with the right to participate actively in the learning procedure;
• the replacement of the ‘chair’ with the ‘department’ as the fundamental academic unit. Despite all its advantages and its potential liberating role, the Draft Law was never
enacted. The focus on the contextual parameters of the above- mentioned Draft Law and the discursive practices (used either to legitimize or to criticize it) facilitates the interpretation of the ‘failure’ to enact it.