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21.03.08-Liberal Alliance press release

Liberal Alliance condemns the cease of funding of the Academic Libraries, by not including them on the ESPA 2009-2013. Academic Libraries is an indispensable instrument for promoting research and development of the Greek Universities and their demise will lead Public Tertiary Education to its further depreciation.

Liberal Alliance supports significant cuts in government spending. But Education, investment in Research and Development form the greater possible advantage for any country in today's globally competitive environment.
Greece's investment in the above is of the lowest of the developed world, and whilst Ireland invested the greater portion of the EU subsidies in education, research and technology with acknowledged results, Greece has squandered it to areas that mattered much less and continues to do so.

It is impossible not to think that Greece's current government, being unable to comprehend the current global trends, aims to impose a digitally illiterate education system.
Students in Greece will no longer be able to access 13.500 web -based media that opened a window to the world, and this constitutes a brutal assault to their intelligence but also to the intelligence of the country in general.

Greek citizens suffering of increasing unemployment and advancing poverty trends, is the result of precisely this policy of indifference to education in general, and digital education in particular by successive Greek Governments.

Liberal Alliance outlines that the only way for Greece to compete effectively within the international arena in the new 'digital century', is through investment in an educational system that serves the needs of a knowledge-based economy and a modern open society.