Education

Secondary teacher union Oelmek and the secondary parents’ association on Monday repeated their request for twice-yearly examinations to be scrapped, in a letter addressed to the Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, ...

Students from the Kinneret College of Israel visited a Limassol-based college to exchange views on historical and cultural issues. The group of Israeli students visited the premises of CTL Eurocollege ...

Quality and equity in early childhood education and care will be the focus of an upcoming English-language European conference in Limassol. The conference is organised by the Cyprus committee of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday conceded that changes must be made to the twice-yearly exam programme as it has failed in achieving its stated goals. “The twice-yearly exam programme was ...

Ten per cent of children present signs of learning difficulties in reading By Angela Charalambous Reading is not a natural skill to acquire, it needs to be explicitly taught. Children ...

Ten teenagers from Limassol are striving to revolutionise the desiccant industry by offering a new environmentally friendly alternative to the harmful silica gel packets used to absorb moisture. HuskMusk, a ...

Teaching unions Oelmek and Oltek said on Saturday that they expect Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to meet with them and find a solution to twice-yearly exams, which have been heavily ...

Over 100 teachers cultivated skills such as empathy using virtual reality technologies during trainings across the island as part of a European Erasmus+ project. In the context of the European project ...

A research team of the department of nursing of the Cyprus university of technology (Tepak) is among the ten teams selected for participation in the Cyprus Seeds programme. The team ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday attended a memorial service for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou at the imprisoned graves. “His sacrifice is an example of self-sacrifice and tremendous love towards ...

The House education committee on Wednesday discussed Tepak’s budget as the state university said it is eager to expand to more cities. Tepak rector Panayiotis Zafiris argued that there ...

A teacher has been fined €850 by the Limassol district court, for causing actual bodily harm to a 10-year-old pupil she attacked during class in 2018, it emerged on Wednesday. According to ...

Two teachers have been struck from the private school teacher register, and a school has been sanctioned over the leak of an exam question in January, the education ministry said ...

Students will be able to attend afternoon schools in gymnasiums across the island as of the coming academic year, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday. A gymnasium in every ...

Included with this week’s Sunday Mail is a 90-page guide to private education on the island. In depth articles look at the changing scene on the island, introducing children ...

The Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) this week announced that a research team under its nursing department has been selected to participate in the Cyprus Seeds programme, one of only ...

Frederick University on Monday announced the successful certification of its Department of Pharmacy by the higher education quality assurance and agency. In its announcement the university said its Department of ...

Left-wing party Akel sent a letter demanding the abolition of the twice-yearly exams in schools to the newly elected president Nikos Christodoulides on Monday. Following a meeting with the Pancyprian ...

The European project for the development of information literacy skills for teachers and librarians comes to an end with the organisation of a final English language conference this Wednesday. The ...

President Nicos Anastasiades met primary school student Themia Paparidou at the presidential palace on Friday after she apparently sent him a letter praising his ten-year tenure. Paparidou had written the ...

The European University Cyprus on Thursday said it was part of a study proposing that black holes are linked to dark energy in the universe. Astrophysicist Andreas Efstathiou, rector and ...

The House education committee was held under a tense atmosphere on Wednesday, after the auditor general accused the University of Cyprus of trying to mislead parliament over its budget. This ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Wednesday refused parents’ request to invalidate what they called the ‘tragic’ results of the twice-yearly exams, saying the average score reflects the previous year. There ...

The Pancyprian Federation of Parents’ Associations on Tuesday asked for the results of the first cycle of the twice-yearly exams held in January to be invalidated, citing results “that can ...