Education minister Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos has sent the dean of the University of Athens, Theodosis Pelegrinis, to the disciplinary board on charges of keeping the university shut through his inaction and his inability to enforce the decisions of the board of rectors.

Education minister Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos has called for a dialogue with rectors in a last ditch effort to lift the impasse at universities, but only with the provision that universities are open.