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On Friday afternoon thousands of students rallied outside parliament holding banners reading \u201cno to private universities\u201d. A group of protesters who peeled off from the main group threw petrol bombs at police, who responded with teargas.\u201cWe are scared that \u2026 if we do manage to graduate we\u2019ll never be able to get a job anywhere,\u201d said Stratos Katselis, 25. \u201cNo young person today can make any kind of plan for the future. All we see are dead ends.\u201dThe university bill is part of a government reform agenda that also includes a same sex marriage law that was passed last month.Greece spends 3%-4% of its annual economic output on education, below the EU average. Mitsotakis, who won a second term in June last year, said the bill stipulated increased funding for state universities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>(Reuters)education reform. foreign private universities, protests, higher education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece&#8217;s parliament passed a bill allowing foreign private universities to establish branches in the country, approved by 159 lawmakers in the 300-seat parliament. 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