medical school graduates they can work doctoral dissertation right after release, whether they hold up or not Postgraduate Diploma. This provides the regulation included in bill of the ministry of education. In particular, as stated in the resolution, “everyone who has a master’s degree awarded by a local or foreign university, or a graduate of a bachelor’s program for at least five years, has the right to apply for admission to doctoral studies. years, which corresponds to 300 credit units of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). This arrangement meets the requirements of medical schools, since their curriculum lasts 12 academic semesters, and the degree corresponds to 360 credits. “Under the former regime, a doctoral dissertation could be prepared by a holder of a master’s degree or a holder of a combined master’s degree. Thus, department graduates with 5 or more years of work experience could not defend their doctoral dissertation; veterinary medicine, medicine that has not been recognized as postgraduate degrees – because, for example. they do not have a dissertation or the academic subject does not support this title (integrated master)”, answered “K” press officer of the Ministry of Education, Olga Yianniadis.

On the same topic, in their recent parliamentary question to the Minister of Education Niki Kerameos, the heads of the education department SYRIZA-PS. Nikos Filis and Meropi Zoufi and the Ministry of Health Andreas Xanthos demanded an immediate amendment to article 92 of law 4957/22, which prohibits medical graduates from preparing doctoral degrees. As they pointed out, “the specific legislation seems to ignore the fact that for medical graduates, the preparation of a doctoral dissertation without the condition of having a master’s degree was a widespread practice, since this is provided for by the Regulations on Doctoral Studies.”

Memorandums of Understanding with Foreign Universities

In the same s/s – on the prevention and treatment of intra-school violence and bullying, which was submitted to Parliament and presented exclusively by “K” on 10/12/2022 – Greek universities are given the opportunity to organize dual programs in a foreign language and dual study programs in cooperation with recognized foreign universities after drawing up an appropriate memorandum of cooperation, which describes more specific conditions for cooperation between universities and details of the organization of the program.