#cyprus school

Plans to introduce social worker services in selected pilot schools in 2026 were announced by Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Monday as part of efforts to tackle school violence and delinquency ...

Public schools are changing “to give every child the strength to move forward,” Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday as she announced a series of reforms coinciding with the ...

Was anyone naïve enough to believe the education ministry would be able to introduce a new evaluation system for public school teachers? Teaching unions have been preventing the proper ...

Cyprus and Greece are deepening cooperation in the field of education, focusing on the transition from rote learning to skills-based instruction, the exchange of educational materials, and the organisation of ...

Cabinet approved on Thursday an exceptional measure allowing several small schools across Cyprus to remain open from September, despite enrolments falling below the usual threshold. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou made ...

“Shock at education committee: even rumours about human trafficking between students,” read a click-bait headline on a news website on Thursday. A newspaper was even clearer with the headline about ...

More than 90 per cent of fathers, and more than 80 per cent of mothers in Cyprus work while more than three quarter of children on the island come from families owning ...

There were fewer schools per students in primary education during the 2022-2023 academic year compared to the previous year, according to a survey released by the Statistical Service on Thursday. ...

Twenty-two schools out of the 55 that applied will be going green right away, through a new programme announced on Friday to make schools and neighbourhoods green again. Education Minister Athena ...

Police are investigating the case of a teenager who showed up to school with €15,000 in cash and distributed money to classmates According to Alpha News, the student gave one classmate ...

Police were mobilised on Thursday to respond to a reported “bomb threat” in a school in Nicosia. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the threat was called in to a ...

The government should place genuine focus on education, House education committee chairman Pavlos Mylonas said on Friday during his visit at two schools in Limassol. MPs visited the new building ...

Congratulations to Education Minister Athena Michaelidou for pursuing her decision to ban mobile phones from all public secondary schools. She had banned phones from primary schools and has now tabled ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Sunday this school year will certainly be better than the previous ones, because they are implementing their goals, they are implementing the policies announced. ...

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 ...

Out of the blue, President Nikos Christodoulides announced on Tuesday that the government would be giving €9.5m in handouts to schoolchildren. The package, he said, was aimed at helping pre-primary, ...

A pilot programme called ‘door to door’ to transport primary school aged students benefitted 850 children and cost the state around €800,000 for the 2023-2024 school year, it emerged on Wednesday. Speaking ...

The stance of the Commissioner for Children’s Rights on the use of mobile phones in schools raises questions, with her agreeing to a ban in primary schools and a ...

A high school pupil who was sexually abused by his classmates is still at the same school as his abusers a month and a half after the incident, Dipa MP ...

A total of six lumps of human excrement were found in a school playground in Paphos on Wednesday morning. According to local news website PafosPress, the excrements were discovered outside ...

New school units both in primary, secondary and special education are urgently needed in Larnaca, MP Prodromos Alambritis said on Wednesday. The Disy MP, following onsite visits with the House ...

Around 4,500 students in Cyprus are believed to have a developmental language disorder, however experts fear many go under the radar and rarely receive the proper diagnosis and help, it emerged ...

After the meeting of President Nikos Christodoulides with the members of the Education Service Commission, for the submission of its annual report, the government spokesman announced the commencement in September ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday welcomed several pupils of the Makedonitissa primary school at the presidential palace ahead of the Easter period. The pupils sang traditional Easter hymns in front ...