Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras on Friday accused the government of presiding over a "massacre" of candidates for university admission.
Commenting on the pass marks for admission to university announced earlier in the day, Tsipras spoke of an unprecedented injustice in the history of the Greek public universities and said the government had made a choice of "universities for the few, fee-paying colleges for the many."
He pointed out that 40,000 young people had failed to get into tertiary education, half of them due to the new admission system with the minimun pass mark, which was decided by the government this year in the midst of the pandemic.
"A prime minister that has not even passed outside a Greek university and has the financial means to send his chidren to study abroad, decides to clip the wings of thousands of pupils that chose to study in their own country," Tsipras said.

Education minister 'off the charts' for insensitivity and arrogance, Iliopoulos says

Responding to a statement by Education Minister Niki Kerameus regarding university admissions on Friday, main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesperson Nasos Iliopoulos said the minister's "insensitivity and arrogance were off the charts".
"She described the exclusion of 40,000 students from university as freeing them from being 'trapped in universities," he noted, adding that on a black day for thousands of families and children, she amply earned the title of the most callous education minister in the history of the Greek state.
"Soon Mrs. Kerameus will not be 'trapped' in a government position. Until then, however, she has an obligation not to offend Greek society," he added.