Degrees awarded by private, non-profit universities established in Greece, exclusively as branches of foreign educational institutions, “will offer full academic and professional rights equivalent to those of the ‘parent’ institution abroad “, declared the Minister of Education, Religions and Sports. Kyriakos Pierrakakis clarified on Sunday, speaking to SKAI television, reports ANA.
He also stressed that, unlike other cases, the Greek National Authority for Higher Education, which is a completely independent authority, will have a say in the criteria for establishing such branches of foreign universities in Greece , thus guaranteeing the best possible quality.
Pierrakakis said that the new bill will not change the situation for the 33 colleges that already offer courses in Greece and that they will also be able to create private universities in collaboration with recognized higher education institutions abroad, provided that they meet the criteria set out in the bill and are non-profit.
The minister said state universities remained the government’s “flagship” of the reform effort, emphasizing the government’s determination to improve them on three levels: internationalization through collaboration with foreign institutions at the of the third and first cycles, additional funding of more than one billion euros and flexibility to reduce bureaucracy and allow easier self-administration.
He gave successful examples of such changes in Cyprus and other European countries, while recognizing the need to accelerate the processes of combating bureaucracy when creating such institutions, predicting that the first ones would open their doors to the during the academic year 2025/2026.
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