foreign students
A sharp reduction in asylum applications filed by international students has been recorded since early October, following the introduction of tougher entry rules for foreign...
Proportion of foreign students second highest in EU
Cyprus has the second highest proportion of foreign students in the EU, a Eurostat report published on Friday shows. In 2018, so called mobile students...
Colleges face losses over foreign student clampdown
Private colleges complained on Wednesday that they are facing serious financial losses in the wake of new controls over how many third country national students...
BBC highlights plight of foreign students in north
Many foreign students who attend universities in the north of the island feel let down, ending up indebted or worse, according to a damning BBC...
Higher education has government’s full support, says president
Tertiary education is getting bigger and better, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Monday, addressing the 25th assembly of university rectors. “We support in every way...
Hospitality industry calls for foreign students to be allowed to work
By Panayiotis Kouloumas BUSINESSES face huge losses because students from third countries are not available to take secondary jobs in the recreational sector, according to...
Badly treated with nowhere to turn
Emmanuel Achiri still gets upset when talking about the case of Veronique Kandem, the African student whose controversial arrest hit the headlines in north Cyprus...
Cyprus becoming a regional higher education hub
Government efforts to make the country a regional education hub have proved successful as the number of foreign students has almost tripled within three years,...
Red tape pushing students to north
By Andria Kades THE Republic of Cyprus is lagging way behind the north’s ability to attract foreign students hosting a maximum of 8,500, while the...
New regulations for foreign students
By Angelos Anastasiou THE government is planning to clamp down on foreign students who enter Cyprus to study, only to abandon their studies and remain...