The Minister of Education, Religion and Sports Kyriakos Pierrakakis made a public intervention in favor of supporting the public university, both financially and at the level of institutional changes, with a video released on social media.

The minister refers to the impressively increased funding with the government having already decided, through the budget and the NSRF, to strengthen public HEIs and at the same time he points out the major institutional changes that are going to occur based on the new law on non-state-non-profit universities , as branches of foreign universities.

Analytically, Mr. Pierrakakis presents the increase in funding from ninety million in 2018 to today’s approximately one billion (operations and infrastructures), while special reference is made to the adoption of long-standing proposals of the Synod of Chancellors regarding the necessary de-bureaucratization of HEIs, so that they are freed from bureaucratic control and significantly strengthen their self-governing function, so that they are able to perform their work.

“We support the public university with actions and not with words” concludes Kyriakos Pierrakis in his report.