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18-09-25 PASOK misleads again questioning the validity and transparency of the licensing process of non-state universities
From the Press Office of the Ministry of Education Religions and Sports the following are clarified:
Following the statement by Stefanos Parastatidis MP Kilkis and KTE responsible PASOK-Main of Change Education we note that the announcement of the Ministry of Education Religions and Sports dated 17-9-2025 was issued by the Press OfficeIt will be published on the official website of the ministry. This is therefore a formal announcement by the political leadership of the OPERATION.
PASOK again misleads public opinion by challenging the validity and transparency of the licensing process of the Branches of Legal Entities (NPE). Obviously PASOK has not yet realized that a historical reform with a variety of benefits for the country and PASOK has not yet realized that in the rule of Mr Mitsotakis.Its allies with an emphasis on the younger generation. With rhetorical tricks and heavy expressions he tries to strengthen a reliable process. It is such the poverty of PASOKs arguments which ends up using in support of his completely unfounded view the attack on the responsible Deputy Minister of N. Papaioannou for the fact that he has exposed with completeness and clarity in the context of parliamentary control the legal framework for the legal framework.A Branches of NPE
So we come back and explain to Mr. Parastatidis the following:
The procedure for issuing installation licenses and in general the operation of annexes in the form of university education legal entities (NPE) is governed exclusively by the provisions of Articles 130 to 155 of Law 5094/2024 as are the regulatory decisions of the administration issued by such provisions.
The Supreme Court of our country controls the legitimacyof administrative action and the compatibility of regulations with the Constitution of our country. According to the Presidents announcement on the outcome of the conferences on cases which were discussed on 11.4.2025 in plenary and relate to the establishment and operation of Greece - Legal Entities of University Education (NPE) ... ...Affiliated with GATS in accordance with the terms of specific law which ensures a high level of study and protects academic freedom ... and that the system of the above law in terms of licensing and operation does not introduce excessive restrictions on the freedom of establishment .
The Ministrys memorandum was tabled in the context of a specific judicial procedure (application for suspension) and the claim made up for the indication ofThe absence of the legitimacy of the applicants to suspend execution on the basis of the specific allegations they have made to establish their legalization because a college is not legalized by law to apply for the installation and operation of an Annex.
In accordance with the incomprehensible wording referred to in Article 139 (1) of Law 5094/2024 the procedure for the issuance of a permit and operating permit in the form of Legal Entities.Postage (NPE) starts with the application by the parent institution or by a legally authorized person by the parent institution. The Branch - Legal Entity of University Education (NPE) is a legal person a non -profit with the sole purpose of providing higher education services the operation of which is governed by the provisions of Law 5094/2024. Each parent institution may control the Annex - NPE. Either through participation in the CCCAbsolutely with an absolute majority either through the educational agreement
Similarly the application requires a number of required supporting documents expressly and restricted to Article 138 of the above law. The supporting documents are required to submit: (a) a letter of guarantee of two million (2000000.00) euros for each application with a five hundred thousand (500000.00) surcharge for each additional school and (b) a fee of six hundred thousand (600000.00) euros per request beforeText the application to be admissible. It is the responsibility of checking that the required supporting documents were properly submitted to check the validity of the guarantee of the letter from the issuing entity and to commit the amount of the fee submitted. It is noted that nothing is a secret as both the numbers of the letters of guarantee and the unique codes of the fees refer to the preamble to licensing decisions that have been fully published in theGovernment Gazette in keeping with the principles of transparency and good administration. The response of the relevant Deputy Minister in the context of parliamentary audit is completely compatible with the current institutional framework as only by law only anyone linked to the NPE Branch and thus with the parent institution (through the educational agreement) is legalized for the submission of the fee.
Mr. Parastatidis is very incorrectly trying to downgrade the importance of the NCSRIdeal agreement in a simple trade agreement such as the franchise commercial agreements that keep colleges with any foreign institutions. The reality however is quite different the educational agreement in accordance with article 132 of Law 5094/2024 is a binding special agreement between a parent institution and an branch of the parent institution in the form of a Legal Education Legal Education (NPE) which fully ensures the proper maintenance of academics.Annex through continuous and thorough control over its operation in a number of areas such as student admission tuition identification scholarships designing curricula courses teaching and evaluation methods and exam results quality control procedures the selected internal evaluators for each program and for the progress of students any external examiners for each lesson and for the evaluation of the students and a number of other issues that ensure the continuous and uninterrupted supervision of the parent Foundation on the NPE.
It also guarantees by law to exercise continuous su
