At the top of the Universities of Greece, the University of the Aegean

Received the highest rating among the 22 Universities of the country in the process of external evaluation. The highest score among all the…
Universities of the country managed to assemble the πολυνησιωτικό University of the Aegean in the process of External Evaluation of university institutions in Greece from the Beginning of the Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education (HQAA).In particular, the University of the Aegean has received as a total institutional value service of the highest anticipated, “Worthy of Merit (Worthy of a Positive Mention)”, one of seven Universities with the highest performance (University of the Aegean, University of Crete, Athens School of Fine Arts, the International University, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, technical University of Crete, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).In addition, the University of the Aegean, received the overall highest scores in the 26 sub-sections, among all Universities of the country: 18 Worthy of Merit (Worthy of a Positive Mention), 7 Positive (Positive), 1 Partially Positive (Partially Positive).The evaluations conducted at the end of 2015 and early 2016 from a high-level external experts, Professors of foreign Universities chosen by the HQAA and is scheduled to be held every four years.”The University of the Aegean, the results of the external evaluation have given us a special joy, but mostly we filled the responsibility for the next day. Without displays of self-admiration, smiling at seeing to fruition the visionary academic narrative perspective and hope that have been established by the people of the Aegean, from 1984 until today, consistently with the daily effort, ενασκούντες the academic function in the Paradigm, as an act of social accountability of a public University that operates in difficult conditions in the – often forgotten – east island borders of the country.All and all of us we fully understand that, studying with joy the above background information, I resolved suddenly the many critical problems, big and small, facing in times of major social and economic crisis, a public University. Especially when it spans six islands and two geographic regions, in Lemnos and Mytilene, Chios, Samos, Syros and Rhodes. In the Aegean for years now, we strive, sometimes we do well, sometimes we fall but we get up and again and again.At this juncture, the streets of the life of the young graduates of all Universities, the journey is even more difficult. For all the public Universities, day by day, shall, as required, to ensure that the graduates “for the road, to take with them water, because the future will have very a drought”, says the message of the Rector of the University of the Aegean professor Stefanos Gritzalis.Source