#schools

The total number of students in Cyprus increased to 218,129 in the 2023/2024 school year, up 4.7 per cent from 208,374 in 2022/2023, the statistical service announced on Tuesday. The number of schools and other ...

Cameras will be installed at 50 more schools across the island during the next year, the education minister told MPs on Tuesday. Athena Michaelidou was responding to a query as to ...

New revelations aired on state television on Friday regarding recent organised neo-Nazi activity at Vergina High School in Larnaca with allegations that more than 100 pupils are actively involved and others ...

Across Europe, children today are moving less, exercising less, and presenting lower levels of physical fitness than any generation before them. Cyprus mirrors this trend with troubling accuracy. As a ...

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 ...

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 ministry reaffirmed its zero-tolerance stance on school violence and racism on Friday, highlighting its ongoing efforts to promote respect, inclusion and democratic dialogue in education. Speaking at an ...

The municipality of Strovolos will be working with neighbourhood social workers to establish a direct line of communication with school administrators, Strovolos mayor Stavros Stavrinidis said during a meeting with ...

Students at Polis Chrysochous gymnasium and Kykkos A lyceum in Nicosia on Friday staged a walkout over broken fans and air conditioning units in the school’s classrooms, saying that ...

A new electronic education and training administration system presented on Thursday provides online access to information in real time, with less bureaucracy and enhanced security and data reliability. Education Minister ...

The issue of whether girls should be allowed to attend public schools in the north while wearing hijabs returned to the fore on Tuesday, with Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ ...

A total of 252 portacabins are to be used as classrooms when Turkish Cypriot children return to school at the end of the summer holiday on Monday, the north’s ‘education ...

Cyprus will experience widespread disruption on Thursday as a three-hour nationwide strike affects airports, schools and public services amid a dispute over the Cost-of-Living Allowance (CoLA). Hermes Airports confirmed on ...

Primary schools reopened on Monday, marking the end of the summer holidays and the beginning of the new school year, with over 50,000 children enrolled at primary schools across the island ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou was upbeat about the new school year when she spoke to journalists on Tuesday. Ninety-eight per cent of school staffing needs had been met, the installation ...

The House education committee on Monday backed President Nikos Christodoulides’ veto on a proposed law that would have made it mandatory for schools to notify parents or guardians of a ...

The drug problem in the island’s schools has risen to the level of organised crime involving recruitment, trafficking and distribution and the failure to put a stop to it ...

The Pancyprian examinations, which Cypriot high school leavers take to gain access to public universities in Cyprus and Greece, got underway on Friday. In total, exactly 5,119 people are sitting the ...

The new technical gymnasium will open its doors in September, “signalling a new era for education in Cyprus” and providing “real opportunities” to students, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

The ludicrous ‘referendum’, held by the secondary teachers union Oelmek, overwhelmingly rejected the bill that would introduce a new system of evaluation of the work of each teacher. A total ...

Racially motivated crimes are on the rise in Cyprus, the House human rights committee heard on Monday Deputy police chief Ioannis Georgiou told the committee that there were a total ...

The cultivation of historical literacy remains a vital component of citizenship education, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday at the Cyprus Paedagogical Institute. “Students who approach history as a ...

Cabinet approved on Thursday an exceptional measure allowing several small schools across Cyprus to remain open from September, despite enrolments falling below the usual threshold. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou made ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar late on Thursday night denied that the subject of a behind-closed-doors meeting he had held with Turkish ambassador Ali Murat Basceri and the north’s ‘...