The bill of the Ministry of Education for the creation of an institutional framework for the operation of branches of international non-state non-profit universities in Greece was approved by a majority.
On the principle of the draft law and on the articles that introduce for the first time procedures and conditions for licensing and establishment of branches of non-state universities, 159 MPs from New Democracy voted in favor while 129 MPs from the opposition and 11 present voted against.
PASOK, after successive shifts and back-and-forths, finally refused to support the bill, while SYRIZA and all the opposition parties voted against.
Several articles on public universities though passed with a wide majority of over 180 votes.
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“After decades of discussion, this evening a great historical change begins” emphasized the Minister of Education, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, lending a festive tone to his final speech on the bill for “strengthening the public university and the framework for the operation of foreign university branches in Greece”.
