Parents announce further actions against new measures
The education ministry on Sunday announced that schools will operate normally next week, following reports about the decision of parents to keep their children from...
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Coronavirus: Keeping schools open needs appropriate measures, Child Commissioner says
Achieving the objective of keeping schools open and safe requires appropriate measures, Child Commissioner Despo Michalidou said on Friday, highlighting the negative effects of closed...
Coronavirus: parents say protocols should stay the same until Easter break
Coronavirus protocols at schools should remain the same until the Easter break so as not to disrupt the educational process, secondary school parents said on...
Four in ten children in Cyprus cared for exclusively by parents
Four out of 10 children (41.6 per cent) in Cyprus aged less than three years were cared for exclusively by their parents in 2019, slightly...
Coronavirus: Parents call for online learning to be assessed
Parents of children still following online classes on Tuesday called for “a reasonable amount of time” to be dedicated to determining what their children have...
Coronavirus: Primary school parents to join demo against online learning on Monday
Parents of primary age children will join a demonstration outside the Presidential palace on Monday to protest the ongoing online lessons for gymnasium students, they...
Confusion over validity of rapid saliva tests
Parents angered over ministry’s refusal to accept them despite being on its own approved list Rapid saliva tests for coronavirus, an alternative to nasal...
Our View: Rational thought has been another casualty of the pandemic
Apart from the loss of lives, the pandemic has also caused a loss of reason among those that govern us. Covid-19 has had a disastrous...
Coronavirus: anti-testing parents told ‘keep kids home but don’t complain come exam time’
Everyone has the right to keep their children from going to school if they don’t want them tested for coronavirus but they shouldn’t complain later...
Coronavirus: Latsia school records 24 cases, parents ask that it close
Latsia Lyceum reported another seven coronavirus cases on Thursday, while another was reported at in the Gymnasium according to the mayor Christos Pittaras. Including the...
Coronavirus: Parents say measures create two-tier school system
The move of lyceums and technical schools to distance learning in Limassol and Paphos violates their rights and effectively creates two categories of students in...
Coronavirus: impromptu school closures not sanctioned, Prodromou says
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Saturday no one was allowed to decide to shut down schools due to coronavirus except for the ministry. Prodromou’s...
Primary parents to meet education minister next week to discuss air conditioning
The primary school parents’ association will meet with the Education Ministry on Tuesday September 15 to discuss the issue of air-conditioning in schools, a ministry...
Coronavirus: Prodromou calls on parents and teachers to cooperate after mask backlash
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Saturday called on parents and teachers to cooperate with the back-to-school coronavirus measures after the mandatory mask rule sparked a...
Parents of abused toddler plead not guilty
The parents of a 19-month-old boy on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of physically abusing the toddler, with Limassol district court referring them to...
Trial of parents of abused child moved to July 30
The lawyer of the parents of the 19-month-old who are accused of abusing him, on Wednesday asked the court for time to study the charges...
Parents of abused child forbidden from seeing him
A couple from Limassol accused of abusing their 19-month-old son have been forbidden from seeing their child pending court proceedings against them for exposing a...
Parents of monk to appeal decision acquitting Limassol bishop of brainwashing him
The parents of a monk are planning to appeal a court decision that acquitted Limassol Bishop Athanasios and others of proselytizing their son about 18...
Arrested child porn suspect worked as high-school guard
Concerns were expressed on Friday by parents after news got out that a 28-year-old man arrested this week for allegedly obtaining child porn material by...
Toddler found wandering alone in Emba late at night
A 23-month-old toddler was found wandering around unattended in the central square of Emba on Tuesday evening, police said. A member of the public told...