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A total of 1,950 teachers across Cyprus objected to their placements or transfers for the academic year which has just become, education service committee chairman Panayiotis Antoniou said on Thursday. Speaking ...

The new academic year for secondary schools began on Friday with a total of 42,650 students registered. Marking the start of the new academic year, President Nikos Christodoulides and Education Minister ...

Student bus fares have been slashed for the upcoming school year, the transport ministry announced on Tuesday, two days before classes begin. The decision follows a directive from President Nikos ...

Monday marked a return to school for teachers, as Education Minister Athena Michaelidou expressed satisfaction over recent upgrades. The school year starts with the operation of many more all-day schools, ...

Concerns were raised on Tuesday over the continued use of portacabins as makeshift classrooms in the north’s schools. Cyprus Turkish teachers’ trade union (Ktos) leader Burak Mavis insisted after ...

A six-year-old child was left alone on a bus for around an hour after falling asleep on a school trip, police said on Thursday. Larnaca police spokesman Spyros Chrysostomou explained ...

The lone remaining pupil in the village of Kambos and her teacher have earned the distinction of the “smallest school in Cyprus” it was reported on Tuesday. Nine-year-old Demetra Panayiotou, ...

Last Monday there was an outcry by parents of students because the mathematics paper of the university entrance exams (also known as the Pancyprian exams) was very difficult and the ...

By Robert Morgan A 10-year-old, allegedly involved in the vandalism of Livadia primary school on Easter Saturday, is expected to appear at the Voroklini police station to give a statement ...

Livadia primary school in Larnaca was vandalised, with windows smashed and items set on fire, it emerged on Tuesday. A ten-year-old student is believed to be responsible for the attack, ...

Personal data protection commissioner Irene Loizidou Nicolaidou on Tuesday approved a plan to install CCTV cameras at schools. The plan had been submitted to her by the education ministry with ...

Parliament is expected next week to vote on the expansion of free and compulsory pre-primary education to include children aged four years old and above. The planned vote comes after ...

The ceiling of the canteen at the Canakkale middle school in Famagusta collapsed during the February school holidays, it emerged on Monday. The ceiling’s collapse is the latest in ...

By Antonia Frangou European democracy is currently facing a challenging period marked by a growing sense of disillusionment among citizens. The decline in voter turnout in EU general elections since 1979 ...

More children than usual were off school sick on Monday, the first day of school after the Christmas holidays. Education ministry’s secondary education director Elias Markadjis said on Tuesday ...

The eight teenagers detained as suspects in the arson at a school in Strovolos are set to appear before the Nicosia district court on Wednesday as remand orders against them ...

Preventing and combating youth delinquency, such as school bullying, is a top priority for the government, Justice Minister Anna Koukkides-Procopiou said on Tuesday. She was speaking at an event to ...

An eighth teen arrested in connection with arson at a Nicosia school was on Monday remanded in police custody for two days by the Nicosia district court. According to the ...

All regular school bus services resumed operations on Monday morning after chaotic scenes last week when buses were pulled to fit fire retardant systems. Speaking to CyBC radio on Monday, ...

Around 300 of the 700 children at the Bekirpasha high school in Trikomo “do not speak Turkish as their first language”, according to local ‘MP’ Biray Hamzaogullari. Hamzaogullari, who belongs to opposition ...

A man arrested on Tuesday for masturbating outside a primary school in the north did so “as a joke”, he told police. The man, a Pakistani national who was arrested ...

Six teenagers were expelled from the Paphos Technical School on Tuesday due to “their delinquent behaviour”, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) reported. The school’s leaders said the children were “...

A teacher at a Limassol high school was accused of forcibly cutting a student’s hair, it emerged on Friday. According to reports, the incident happened at the start of ...

Children in Cyprus reported the second highest amount of negative effects from the Coronavirus pandemic, an international survey by the World Health Organisation (WHO) showed on Tuesday. As only Kazakhstan ...