The degrees awarded by private, non-profit universities established in Greece, exclusively as branches of foreign educational institutions, "will offer full academic and professional rights that are equivalent to those of the 'parent' institution abroad," Education, Religions and Sports Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis clarified on Sunday, speaking to SKAI television.

The operation criteria of non-public, non-profit universities that will be founded as departments of major and acclaimed international institutions in cooperation with the Greek public universities, will be the stricter in Europe, Education, Religion and Sports Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis underlined in an interview with ANTENNA TV on Thursday referring to the new bill that is already characterised "a historic reform".

The Minister of Digital Governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, has been in Washington since yesterday.