French university to become first private HE institution

France’s Sorbonne Paris Nord University is poised to become the first foreign institution to open a private university in Greece under a new law, writes Tasos Kokkinidis for the Greek Reporter.

The university submitted its application to Greece’s Ministry of Education on Friday 14 February, seeking approval to establish the ‘French University of Greece – International Campus Sorbonne Paris Nord’. The university is a public university based in Paris, and one of the 13 universities that succeeded the University of Paris in 1968. It is a multidisciplinary university located in the north of the French capital, in the municipalities of Villetaneuse, Saint-Denis, La Plaine Saint-Denis, Bobigny and Argenteuil.

Greek Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis called the development a “milestone” for the country’s higher education reform. The move comes just months after Greece passed a law allowing non-state, non-profit universities to operate in the country.
Full report on the Greek Reporter site