#Primary school Teacher's union (POED)

The unrest in the education sector is solely the education ministry’s responsibility, primary school teachers’ union (Poed) chairwoman Myria Vasiliou said on Monday. Speaking on the teacher evaluation legislation, ...

Primary school teacher union Poed decided on Thursday – as a “gesture of good will” – to postpone its work stoppage scheduled for November 26 to protest the proposed changes to the teacher ...

President Nikos Christodoulides avoided any involvement in the ongoing dispute between his government and teaching unions, leaving Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to take the heat, but on Monday, with unions ...

Primary school teachers’ union Poed will be striking on November 26 from 7.30am till 9am to protest the proposed teacher evaluation plan, a week after unions Oelmek and Isotita are set ...

The education minister’s proposal for teacher evaluations was thrown out on Thursday by teachers’ union Poed which, along with Oelmek, called on Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to an immediate ...

Teachers’ unions Oelmek, Oeltek and Poed on Monday called for an immediate meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides over the implementation of an agreement for permanent teaching positions. The three unions ...

The Israeli Embassy on Wednesday defended its participation in a planned event at a Nicosia primary school to showcase its sponsorship of a “green roof” for the facility. The event ...

Teachers should have the right support from the government to streamline any changes that can improve the education sector, head of the primary school teachers’ union Poed, Myria Vasiliou, said ...

Teaching and education related trade unions from across the divide issued a joint declaration on Tuesday in support of World Teachers’ Day, celebrated on October 5. “The sustainable and effective financial ...

The House education committee said on Wednesday they believe to have found the compromise for compulsory pre-primary education, even as teachers union Poed held a strike outside the presidential palace ...

Primary school teachers trade union Poed on Thursday reiterated calls for additional permanent positions, saying reliance on a large number of contract teachers creates a series of unnecessary educational and ...

Poed, the primary school teachers’ union, will be writing to the health ministry asking for clarifications on the “test to stay” programme and suggesting changes to protocols at schools, union ...

Primary school and kindergarten teachers held a one-hour work stoppage on Monday morning, with union Poed giving authorities 15 days to work out satisfactory solutions to problems faced due to ongoing ...

Parents on Friday expressed their “sadness and displeasure” at the situation leading to teaching union Poed’s decision to stage a one-hour work stoppage, which is set to last from 7.30 ...

Primary and nursery schoolteachers will stage a one-hour work stoppage on Monday to protest the way the pandemic is being handled at schools, teachers’ union Poed said on Thursday. As ...

Primary schools across the island staged initiatives condemning violence on Monday, in the aftermath of last week’s attacks on schools which included arson and a bombing. Encouraged by primary ...

Eighty per cent of school staff have received the Covid vaccine Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday during a House committee briefing. Prodromou said vaccination would work as an ...

Teachers and unions on Tuesday reaffirmed their support for afternoon state school teachers asking to be given contracts, stressing they are ready to continue their indefinite strike until their request ...

Blaming teachers for the spread of the coronavirus is “unacceptable and condemnable”, President of primary school teaching union Poed Myria Vasiliou told the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday. She said ...

The forthcoming opening up of primary schools must be carried out in an organised and proper manner, president of primary school teachers union Poed Myria Vasiliou told the Cyprus News ...