#air conditioning

Most public preschools, high schools, and nearly all middle schools will begin the new school year with air conditioning installed, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Thursday, as the government ...

A 49-year-old man is in critical condition after an air conditioning compressor exploded while he was carrying out repair work in Strovolos. The accident occurred at around 5.30pm on Friday ...

Heating and cooling account for around 70 per cent of household energy consumption in Cyprus, with cooling degree days reaching 610 per cent of the European average, according to a report published ...

The government aims for all public schools to be equipped with air conditioning within a few months, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou insisted on Thursday. Speaking after visiting the 19th Primary ...

Plans to install air conditioning in public schools are facing delays, with electrical contractors warning that technical constraints and grid limitations could prevent systems from operating during the summer, even ...

Students sitting Pancyprian exams will be doing so in air-conditioned classrooms, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday. Speaking before a cabinet meeting, Christodoulides also referred to changes in the education ...

Pupils at the KB primary school in Limassol stayed away from lessons for two periods on Friday morning. The action came after the parents’ association decided to protest against the ...

The Larnaca Federation of Parents’ Associations for Secondary Education is demanding immediate updates on the progress of air conditioner installations and the functioning of heating systems in the district’s ...

The Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) on Thursday dismissed claims of delays in installing air conditioning units in public schools, attributing setbacks to a lack of coordination among those involved ...

New air conditioning units installed in schools months ago cannot be switched on yet due to insufficient electricity and teachers’ union Oelmek hopes that May and June – the final months ...

The second wave of air-conditioning for schools has been approved by the education ministry, as well as the landscaping of two adjoining schools, with a budget of €1.5 million, chairwoman of ...

Final year students at the Laniteio lyceum staged a protest on Tuesday, boycotting the first two lessons of the day to express their dissatisfaction with the classroom conditions due to ...

The Pan-Cyprian Student Co-ordinating Committee (Psem) said on Thursday that the issue of installing air conditioning in schools had become a mockery because the president and others had not fulfilled ...

The progress of installing air conditioning units in public schools was the main focus of a meeting held on Tuesday between Education Minister Athena Michaelidou and the presidents of the ...

The installation of air conditioning units in schools is to begin within the next few days, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Sunday. Speaking at student union Pofen’s annual ...

In the end the teaching unions were vindicated – the biggest problem facing public education is not falling standards, low literacy, poor teaching, anti-social behaviour, but the lack of air-conditioning units ...

This is the first time real planning has gone into the long-standing promise of successive governments to install air conditioning in schools, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday. An ...

A total of 200 air conditioning units will be installed in schools in Limassol and Nicosia by August 10, the head of the school boards committee promised on Thursday. Committee chairman Dinos ...

The House education committee on Wednesday discussed the plague of sweltering heat in schools, amid a three-year education ministry plan to roll out air conditioning units across all schools at ...

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 ...

The first air conditioning units will be installed in schools before the end of the year, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Monday. She said the units will be installed “...

By Gloria Dickie With climate warming leading to more air conditioning use worldwide, dozens of countries including China, India and the United States are being asked to commit to a ...

Applications can be made to the consumer protection association to buy modern, more energy efficient air conditioning units. Marios Drousiotis, president of the association, said that applications can be made ...

The education ministry has prepared a five-year programme costing around €100 million for air conditioning in schools, minister Prodromos Prodromou has revealed. He told CNA the policy position was that there ...