“Could and should the State retain its monopoly of Higher Education in the era of “Knowledge Society”?”
Nikolaos Travlos
Page 70-79
Abstract
In the era of globalization and of knowledge society the state should not monopolize the provision of higher education. As the establishment of private universities is constitutionally forbidden the development of non-state, non-profit universities in Greece appears to be the only acceptable alternative. Such a policy will considerably relieve state budged, it will improve, through competition, the quality of higher education provided by state universities and it will restore equality of opportunity that has been violated over the years by the fact of abolishment of free education and by the capacity of wel-off parents to have their children educated abroad.