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 ‘...
Teachers walked out of every public school in the north on Wednesday as protests continue against the ruling coalition’s handling of education in light of a retracted attempt to ...
Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Monday night demanded that legal action be taken against teachers who “disturbed our peace” while protesting against the legalisation of the wearing of hijabs ...
The Cyprus Turkish educators’ union (Kibtes)’ chairman Himmet Turgut on Wednesday defended his demand that more religion classes be taught in the north’s schools, while also issuing a wholehearted ...
Bomb threats were sent to more than 300 state and private schools in Cyprus on Tuesday morning, the police confirmed.
A police spokesperson confirmed to the Cyprus Mail that the threats ...
Limassol’s school board was on Wednesday questioned over its installation of padel courts at schools by the House education committee.
The padel courts are operated by private firms, with ...
Large schools are ‘nests for delinquency’, parents’ association chairman Yiannos Ioannou said on Wednesday, as he called for the size of schools in Cyprus to be reduced.
Speaking to the ...
The budget for improving school buildings has more than doubled over the past two years, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Friday
Speaking after an event in Paphos, she said ...
Cctv cameras will be installed at 25 more schools across the country in January, an official with the education ministry confirmed on Tuesday.
Speaking to daily Phileleftheros, Elias Markatzis said this ...