#education

By Lanting Liu Eighteen Cypriot university athletes will take part in the Chengdu 2021 FISU World University Games in China from July 28 to 8 August. They will participate in artistic gymnastics, swimming, ...

And the church’s role in schools ensures it will stay that way By Fahri Zihni My late mother was born in the village of Tera, Paphos in 1924 to a ...

St. John Coombes has received the honour of being made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the King’s first Birthday Honours list. ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled a law from the presidency to make pre-school education at public institutions as on unconstitutional. As stated in the decision of the court, the ...

We’re not surprised when religious zealots in some benighted part of the American heartland ban the teaching of evolution in the local school, but what could have possessed the ...

Teachers on a waiting list to be given positions at state schools have started an online petition to not have the list replaced by another list of teachers awaiting to ...

The role of artificial intelligence in public school education will be discussed in a coming workshop for teachers and headteachers to be held in Nicosia next month. The Digital Education: ...

Cyprus, China and the UK exchange cross-cultural knowledge in audio-visual media through the newly established International Centre of Media, Arts and Communication at UCLan Cyprus university. The unique initiative, developed ...

The Cyprus Computer Society (CCS) presented the new Erasmus programme on a digital skills wallet during a recent award ceremony for IT student competitions. The European project aims to develop ...

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 ...

High school exams will include only 60 per cent of the teaching material this year, after the plenum approved a relevant education ministry proposal on Thursday. The approved proposal also provides ...

By Andreas Charalambous and Omiros Pissarides The economy of Cyprus depicts positive features as regards growth, employment and public finances. However, its economic development model requires radical adaptation in order ...

The government will submit proposals in two to three weeks for an upgraded student evaluation system Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday, following a week of contradicting statements about ...

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 ...

Law change provides loophole to charge massive hikes A legal loophole has enabled a private school in Limassol to hike its tuition fees by over 200 per cent, leading to a ...

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 ...

The tech industry in Cyprus is booming, with many passionate individuals working hard to make it thrive. In this context, the new season of workshops from TechIsland is due to ...

About six in ten people in Cyprus aged 25 to 34 hold a university degree with the percentage being higher in women than men, data from the national statistical service showed on ...

Education, the economy and health are the trifecta the government should invest more in, according to a survey of 1000 citizens in Cyprus. Carried out as part of the state’s ...

Top students from Cyprus received outstanding Cambridge learner awards for their 2022 academic achievements. Over 49 learners in Cyprus received awards for exceptional performance in Cambridge examinations, achieving a total of 59 awards. ...

Parents should have every right to choose to send their children to a private nursery or kindergarten if they wish, and the move from MPs to prevent this by the ...

Teaching unions Oelmek, Poed and Oltek met with government officials on Thursday to discuss a proposal that would hypothetically improve the recruitment of permanent teaching posts and cut down on ...

New technical schools will be built in 2023, general secretary of the union of technical school teachers’ (Oeltek) Lenos Loizou said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said ...

Students in secondary education along with their parents protested outside the Paphos education ministry’s office on Friday, over the ongoing spat on twice-yearly exams. “There’s way too much ...