The number of entrants and what it means

The total number of places in universities is 77.415. The Ministry of Education used various criteria to determine the number of students admitted. One of them concerns "Improving the link between higher education and the labor market, with the increase in admissions to Departments with an expected increase in the absorption of their graduates, such as. in the Departments of Early Childhood Education, in the Departments of Kindergarten Teachers, in the departments of Informatics, in Veterinary Medicine. ", as stated in the press release. I totally agree with Informatics (I have written it many times) and Veterinary Medicine. The problem is with the Kindergarten and Nursery departments. The 2019 we had 83.763 births and 124.965 deaths. Our country is facing a very significant reduction in its population. Remember that the 2011 we had 106.428 births and the 2016 92.898 births. When this year's entrants graduate and work, they will be in our Kindergartens almost 10.000 fewer children. In the meantime, there are many unemployed kindergarten teachers since here 10 no appointments have been made in years. I can not understand how they thought.

Another criterion used is the effort to support universities in remote areas (Democritus University of Thrace, University of the Aegean, University of Western Macedonia). With the introduction of the Minimum Admission Base, the students of these Universities are expected to decrease dramatically.. Increasing the number of admissions, I am afraid that there will be no result in practice, since too many seats will be left vacant. The Ministry of Education will face the problem of keeping them with a small number of students or closing them.

The University of Patras suggested the closure 4 departments and the Ministry of Education accepted his proposal and did not nominate admissions to these departments.

In the tables we see the sections with the largest increase and the largest decrease in the number of entrants. We find that we have a very large increase in military schools and a very large decrease in the Police, after last year's big increase. This is how we come to last year. In the schools with the largest increase in the number of students we see a large increase in schools in regional universities that will be "hit" by the EBE and, therefore, will be left blank. It is about, that is,, for theoretical rather than real positions.

Regarding the rate of the Minimum Admission Base (ΕΒΕ) 196 sections chose the lowest possible rate. the 0,8. Among them are some high-ranking departments, which rather means that they are indifferent or opposed to this measure. Most high-ranking departments chose the highest rate, the 1,2, which is practically irrelevant in high-ranking departments. In departments that refused to set a rate, the Ministry of Education set this rate for the calculation of EBE, as provided by law, and chose the lowest, that is, the 0,8.

Some departments set very high scores in the special course of free and linear design, which would probably deprive them of many students. The Graphic Design department and several Architecture departments set a factor for the two projects in 1, which means that candidates must write at least 15 to have the right to declare the department. In the section of Xanthi the rates for both the courses and the plans are 1,1, which means that in the drawings the student must write at least 16,5 (always with last year's data) to have the right to declare school. This is a surprise to candidates who knew until a month before the exam that 10 in the plans and suddenly it is done 15 and likely to leave many vacancies in these departments.

We will see how the first application of EBE will affect the number of students, which is expected to create a new landscape in some Universities, that will launch developments. All we know for sure is that the meaning of the number of admissions is changing. It does not indicate which ones will be introduced, but how many places are offered at Universities. How many will be admitted is something we will find out at the end of August.