April 18, 2021 THESSALONIKI, GREECE (AFP) – Shuttered for over a year because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Greek universities are now grappling with a surge in online exam cheating giving rise to a new reality: the “corona degree”. Both professors and students candidly admit that examination safeguards are practically impossible to enforce in a remote-learning environment with hundreds of participants simultaneously online. “In jest, we call the degrees to be awarded this season ‘corona degrees’,” said John Mylopoulos, a professor of environmental engineering and former rector of Thessaloniki’s Aristotelio University. “Remote learning is supposed to be a supplementary education tool. When it completely subsumes teaching, problems begin,” he told