National Technical University of Athens

Roughly 20 self-styled anarchists engaged in what's increasingly turning into a "Saturday night" rite in the Greek capital, burning trash cans outside the Athens Polytechnic at the corner of Patission and Tositsa streets in central Athens before turning their revolutionary fervor against bus stops?

City of Athens staff specializing in removing graffiti from buildings and Greek Cultural Ministry experts began restoring the exterior walls of the National Technical Univeristy of Athens (NTUA) in the city center on Monday. The walls had been recently covered by black and white graffiti.

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Tuesday contacted the rector of the National Technical University of Athens, Yiannis Golias, and said that municipal staff who specialize in removing graffiti from buildings were available to help purge the exterior walls of the institution of a large black and white adornment that has fueled controversy.

By Harry van Versendaal

?The only good thing about graffiti is that it pisses off the liberals. Which is good enough, I suppose.?

Administrative staff at Athens university will stage a walkout between 11 a.m. and the end of their shift on Thursday.

Meanwhile, a protest has been planned Thursday outside the Ministry of Administrative Reform. The rally will be joined by staff at National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).

The prestigious Athens Medical School will struggle to operate this week as administrative staff strike to protest their inclusion in a troika-imposed mobility scheme in the civil service.

The coming week will be crucial for the country’s universities as a number of key issues are expected to be settled ahead of elections for rectors in July.

A prosecutor was assigned on Wednesday to investigate reports alleging that a sit-in by students at the campus of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) has been supported by members of the university’s administration, who have gone on to occupy other parts of the premises.

Students at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) have vowed to extend a sit-in in protest at a troika-mandated mobility scheme for administrative staff until Tuesday.

The sit-in, now in its second week, is threatening to derail the summer semester. Protests have also left the administrative services of Athens University in disarray.

A burgeoning row between administrative staff protesting a civil service overhaul and academics seeking to avoid further upheaval just six months after a similar dispute was resolved has left the country’s two largest universities in a state of virtual paralysis.