Research in Greek Higher Education

Abstract

The state of research in Greek higher education has far-reaching consequences. The fact that university research continues to function only sluggishly undermines the universities' educational task, isolates them from the social area to which they belong, heightens the country's economic and cultural dependence, weakens social criticism, and hampers the procedures of social reform. However much teaching might form a basic axis of the university's task—which it does to such an extent that it is often confused with the whole of its existence—research is of central importance in defining the university as an institution devoted to higher education, that is, a place where a critical analysis of the production, communication, and use of knowledge is attempted.