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Giuseppe Okonkwo-Smythe

Higher Education Editor

Okonkwo-Smythe covers academic governance, institutional politics and organized collegiality. He has held permanent positions at institutions he prefers not to discuss and visiting positions at several that prefer not to discuss him. He joined The Academic Standard after concluding that observation offered better job security than participation.

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Athens, the Las Vegas of Higher Education

A constitutional prohibition, a foreign-university boom and the ancient Greek conviction that every child deserves the opportunity to become a doctor have transformed Athens into an academic destination where Cyprus, Britain and France can now be experienced without leaving the paternal home.

18 September 2026 · 8 min read · Read →

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