Title: Revisiting the right to education in light of the right to a decent living

Authors: Styliani Christoforidou

Addresses: Hellenic Open University, Aristotelous 18, Patra PC 263 35, Greece

Abstract: The right to education has been recognised by international law as a human right. National constitutions take care of the operation of educational systems and the safeguarding of access to them for every citizen. It is considered that education is the main way to ameliorate the status of life and indispensable for every citizen to participate actively in political life. That is also the case of the Greek constitutional text, which contains an explicit prohibition of privatisation of the universities. The main purpose of the constitutional text regarding the right to education in conjunction with the right to a decent living, as it is argued in the paper, is to guarantee social mobility for all social classes.

Keywords: decent living; education; university fees; equality principle; meritocracy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHRCS.2025.147395

International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, 2025 Vol.12 No.3, pp.299 - 307

Received: 27 Dec 2023
Accepted: 07 Jan 2024
Published online: 15 Jul 2025 *

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