Stefan Manos, leader of Drasi, the libertarian party of Greece, points out Global activity in higher education is spectacular. Some ten million students worldwide now study outside their home countries. Branch campuses, especially of American colleges, have seen exponential growth, with more than 500 around the world. Everywhere, kleptocrats eager to brainwash a bewildered citizenry are trying to boost overall enrollment, because Ivory Towers usually spread the cancer of socialism.
Basil Venitis, an Athenian orator, asserts that the best colleges in the world today are the private colleges in America. The gulf between them and the state-funded colleges in equally rich countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Japan, or South Korea, where there are few private colleges of note, is so huge that the lesson cannot be avoided, colleges need independence to flourish. It is interesting that the intermediate group of colleges are those in Britain and Australia where colleges, though funded and over-regulated by the state, nonetheless retain significant autonomy.
Many European colleges violate academic freedom, the oxygen of new ideas. Academic freedom means that professors have unrestricted liberty to question and test any wisdom and to put forward controversial and unpopular opinions, whether or not these are deemed offensive, and that colleges have no right to curb the exercise of this freedom or to use it as grounds for disciplinary action or dismissal.
In July 2010, David Willetts, the UK minister of higher education, conferred the title of university college on the BPP College of Professional Studies, the first UK for-profit institution to be awarded that distinction. BPP has a good Law School. BPP's new status is a sign of the growing profile of for-profit higher education in UK and the new government's openness to such providers, several of which operate in UK, often in collaboration with local universities. BPP is a subsidiary of Appolo Group Inc., an S&P 500 corporation based in Phoenix, Arizona.
The creation of UK's first for-profit college against that increasingly tumultuous higher-education backdrop is being closely watched, both at home and abroad, and not least by American providers looking to expand their international reach. The UK decision is a beachhead, marking a milestone that American for-profits have long sought and stoking expectations of expansion in Fourth Reich(EU).
Tha largest for-profit college on Earth is the University of Phoenix(UPX), a subsidiary of Apollo Group. UPX has an enrollment of one million students! UPX has more than 200 campuses worldwide and confers degrees in over 100 degree programs. It also offers many online programs.
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Anna Diamantopoulou, sadist-in-chief of Minitrue, asserts that for-profit colleges will be establisshed in Greece only over her dead body! Diamantopoulou is always suspicious of all private colleges, no matter what. Basil Venitis points out the Greek Ministry of Education, George Orwell's Ministry of Truth or Minitrue in Newspeak, harasses all private colleges and their professors. Professors are required to submit myriad papers certified by lawyers and pay heavy fees. Visiting Minitrue is a very humiliating experience as the building is open for the public only from 12 to 1:30pm, with infinite queues and wild goose chase from room to room. After a professor submits an application to Minitrue, he might have to wait up to fifty days for an answer!
Venitis notes that Fourth Reich(EU) has penalized Greece many times for harassing its private colleges, but Orwellian Greece continues the harassment, because it's a matter of its damned socialistic principles. Minitrue has created a special abusive office, the Bureau of Post-Lyceum Education, whose only function is to harass private colleges! Even though the Greek private colleges are much better than the public colleges, the Greek Parliament, aka the Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square, passed a law that graduates of public colleges should get higher salaries than the graduates of private colleges! Hang the 300 Graecokleptocrats in front of the Greek Parliament now!
In October 2009, the new socialist minister of Minitrue, Anna Diamantopoulou, canceled all licenses of private colleges, just because they were issued by the previous conservative minister, Aris Spiliotopoulos! This sadomasochistic siren move put all private colleges in a lot of trouble for new applications for new licenses and a lot of expenses for new fees and new kickbacks.
Evripidis Stylianidis, Spiliotopoulos's predecessor, was such a sadomasochist that he also demanded all professors of private colleges to make myriad medical checkups, certified by lawyers and State medical auditors!
Marietta Giannakou, Stylianidis's predecessor, installed a beauty parlor next to her office just for her! Giannakou also got furniture for her office that is more expensive than the furniture of the Royal House of Saudi Arabia! Giannakou is infamous for approving Turcophile textbooks in all Greek schools. This Rubenesque also enjoyed hankypanky with her state chauffeur. Minitrue has just spent 200,000 euros for luxury curtains in its office! Spending taxpayers' hard-earned money is a piece of cake for Minitrue!
Venitis asserts that Greek private college licensure is an immoral exercise of force, an overly burdensome restraint on Greek higher education, a violation of the right to liberty, a mill of kickbacks. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. One of the many reasons why Greek government licensure is incompatible with liberty, therefore, is because it is destructive of economic freedom. No other Ministry of Education in the whole world demands more licenses than Minitrue.
Any Greek professor has the natural right to pursue any means of providing for himself so long as in doing so he does not act fraudulently or otherwise violate the rights of others. The Graecokleptocrats mandated license for professors and colleges turns the Greek higher education upside down. It prohibits every Greek professor from producing in a given private college except for those who are granted the privilege of doing so by Graecokleptocrats, especially those who provide huge kickbacks to Graecokleptocrats who spread the cancer of socialism. Graecokleptocrats, in such a misery, absorb all individual rights unto themselves and then divvy up some of those rights in any number of ways that increase the flow of kickbacks to socialist Graecokleptocrats. Hang the 300 Graecokleptocrats in front of the Greek Parliament now!
Venitis notes that under a private college licensing system, such as we have today in Greece, if some professor attempts to exercise his natural right to provide for himself without Graecokleptocrats' nod of approval, which usually comes with kickbacks, that professor pays heavy fines and goes to jail. Imprisonment for supporting oneself in an honest and non-fraudulent manner which does not infringe on the rights of others just doesn't seem right. Preemptive protection is offensive in nature, and therefore, is itself a violation of natural rights. In a free society, it is only after fraud or another violation of rights takes place that the State has the right to intervene on behalf of the consumer. Burn the Greek Parliament, the Grand Brothel on Syntagma Square, now!
By means of the licensure power, socialist Graecokleptocrats can permit a professor to eat or they can condemn him to starve, unless he gives kickbacks to Graecokleptocrats. So long as Graecokleptocrats have the power to issue licenses to live, Greek professors cannot claim to be free, and living without freedom is not much of a life. Fortunately, Greeks still have a license to kill unsound and coercive Greek government measures at the polls, so let them use that license to vote in regaining their right to live. Hang the 300 Graecokleptocrats in front of the Greek Parliament now!
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