Education

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou has called an emergency meeting on Wednesday with authorities dealing with delinquency in schools, following the arrest of a group of teens that set fire to ...

By Hanna Yerega The EMERGE project, implemented by CARDET and Koumanto stin Tsepi sou, proudly announces the official release of a comprehensive online educational programme to enhance citizen participation in ...

One in four students in Cyprus is a victim of school bullying, it emerged from a House education committee meeting on Wednesday. According to an education ministry spokesperson, the police ...

The Cyprus Agriculture Payments Organisation (Capo) has officially completed payments totalling €748,567 for the programme bringing fruit, vegetables, and milk into schools for the academic year 2022-2023. Capo said on Tuesday ...

Welcome aboard this exciting journey where hitting the books meets hitting the road! Picture this: one day, you’re soaking up history in the canals of Venice, and the next, ...

More than 70 US lawmakers on Friday demanded the governing boards of three of the country’s top universities remove their presidents, citing dissatisfaction with their testimony at a hearing about ...

A report which showed Cypriot children to have well below average competencies in mathematics, science and reading “highlights the urgent need for educational reform”, the Nicosia federation of primary schoolchildren’...

Cypriot children displayed below average competencies in the 2022 report of the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). Pisa surveys 15-year-old children in mathematics, reading and science, and grades them based ...

Youth unemployment has reached large proportions and threatens social cohesion and the future of the country, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday. Her greeting was read out by secondary ...

Primary school children in Parekklisia engaged in a two-hour strike on Tuesday over inadequate facilities at the school. The strike was organised by the school’s parents’ association, with pupils ...

The Department of Engineering at the University of Nicosia (UNIC), in collaboration with Shell PLC, held the NXplorers Pro Workshop for a group of highly-motivated engineering students on November 17, 2023. The ...

Cyprus’ tertiary education’s rapid growth has caught the attention of international university ranking organisations, which evaluate, compare and rank the world’s top universities. Prospective students from around the ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers gathered in front of northern Nicosia’s district court on Friday morning to protest against the criminal cases opened against 22 of their colleagues. Charges of “battering the ...

The legal framework governing board member selection for semi-state organisations will also apply in the case of the English School, it was announced on Wednesday. The decision comes after a ...

Around half of schoolkids in Cyprus have tried alcohol at least once, according to an HBSC survey on health behaviour in school-age children, with officials saying the data is alarming. ...

By Andri Agathokleous Socio-emotional learning and wellbeing in early childhood education are attracting growing attention, as researchers continuously emphasise their drastic benefits for children at the start of, and across, ...

Scores of students from various schools gathered on Friday morning outside Paphos Technical School to protest the expulsion of six students for “delinquent behaviour” earlier in the week. The school’...

Almost half of university graduates are overqualified for their job, Cyprus’ higher education director Dr Terpsa Constantinidou said on Wednesday, highlighting that modern-day graduates are expected to have a combination ...

The installation of air conditioning units at schools is to begin in the next few days, Government Spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Friday. Speaking to reporters, he said air conditioning ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou presented awards on Thursday to schools which employ the “content and language integrated learning” (CLIL) approach for second and other language education. A total of 85 primary ...

Cabinet on Wednesday decided on a series of measures to combat violence and delinquency in schools, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said following the meeting. She said that everyone recognises that ...

The annual Academic Excellence Awards ceremony, one of the most esteemed events to be held by The International School of Paphos (ISOP), took place at the Markideio Theatre on October 6, 2023. ...

Children who are not Greek Cypriots are more likely to be bullied in schools, according to the latest results of the government’s school violence survey. The results of the ...

A series of events have been planned to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Deaf School. The events were announced on Monday by Deaf School Welfare Fund ...