Education Minister plays down low average exam results
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Tuesday played down the disappointing results in the Pancyprian exams, which were released on Sunday evening, with the average mark...
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Universities seeks to block Trump’s rule deporting ‘on-line foreign students’
About 60 U.S. universities on Sunday filed a brief supporting a lawsuit by two others, seeking to block a Trump administration rule barring foreign students...
Future uncertain for new academic year, all scenarios being examined
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Sunday his ministry was preparing for any scenario ahead of the new academic year, in light of how the...
U.S. may deport foreign students taking classes fully online
Foreign students must leave the United States if their school’s classes this fall will be taught completely online or transfer to another school with in-person...
New school year for primary school students to start early
Primary education pupils will go back to school around two weeks earlier in September than usual to cover for the teaching time lost due to...
Coronavirus: special-needs schools to remain closed, minister says as parents demonstrate (Updated)
By Peter Michael and Andria Kades A large number of students with special needs were able to return to school on Monday, as parents demonstrated...
Coronavirus: Parents of children with special needs demonstrate at ministry
Parents of children with special needs staged a protest in front of the ministry of education on Friday morning, complaining they were informed just hours...
Coronavirus: conditions for return to school of children with special needs ‘discriminatory’ Lottides says
Both the Ombudswoman and the Child Commissioner on Thursday slammed the government’s policy towards children with special needs as discriminatory given the requirements they need...
UK’s Cambridge University to hold all lectures online next year
Britain’s Cambridge University became one of the first in the world on Wednesday to announce that all its lectures would be delivered online over the...
Revised exam programme posted online
The revised programme for the Pancyprian exams has been posted on the website of the education ministry, the ministry announced on Thursday. The details can...
Coronavirus: Students return but complaints that online learning for those at home failed (Updated)
Nearly 7,000 lyceum and technical school final year students returned to school on Monday after an absence of almost two months, but students and teachers...
Coronavirus: demise of school socialising, behaviour to be regimented
Parents of secondary school students, and the children’s parliament on Sunday issued Sunday a health and safety guide for pupils ahead of their return to...
Coronavirus: parents concerned about decision to reopen schools
Parents and teachers of secondary-school students say they are concerned over the government’s decision that sees the return to classes on Monday of tens of...
Our View: Union bullying at the fore of debate over reopening schools
Nobody should be surprised if no students, apart from those in their final year, return to public school before September. Ever since they met President...
‘Education minister should look like someone who is in control’
By Gina Agapiou About seven weeks after e-learning was launched in state schools, one final year lyceum student and his mother question whether it has...
Schools struggled to implement distance learning
The lack of preparatory work was evident right from the start By Kyriacos Nicolaou Parents will have been relieved to hear the Education Minister Prodromos...
Coronavirus: distance learning for primary pupils to be evaluated Thursday
Education minister Prodromos Prodromou will on Thursday discuss distance learning with primary school teachers. The head of the primary school teachers union Poed, Filios Fylaktou,...
Coronavirus: primary-school parents concerned about distance learning
The Pancyprian Confederation of Parents’ Associations for Primary Education expressed their concerns on Wednesday over distance learning that has been imposed to prevent spread of...
Coronavirus: e-learning in state schools fully operational by Thursday
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said Tuesday e-learning in public schools would be fully operational by Thursday. Though distance learning is not considered teaching for exams,...
‘Too soon to talk of closing schools’ Prodromou says (Update 1)
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Tuesday there were no plans as yet to close schools after two people tested positive for corona virus. Speaking...
