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Teachers record temperatures of 38C in classrooms Education

Teachers record temperatures of 38C in classrooms

June 13th, 2018 To prove their point that air-conditioning is needed in classrooms during the summer, primary school teachers said on Wednesday that thermometers used the previous day recorded temperatures of up to 38C starting as early as 7.45am. Teachers had responded to their union Poed’s call to measure temperatures in what its chairman...
Education ministry sees no need for ACs in classrooms Education

Education ministry sees no need for ACs in classrooms

June 12th, 2018 The education ministry said on Tuesday that air conditioning in schools was unnecessary, following a long-standing request from the parents’ association that they be installed. Director of the technical services at the education ministry Andreas Marangos told the Cyprus Mail that air conditioning was not needed as schools are closed...
Around 2,000 students from both sides brought together over past school year Education

Around 2,000 students from both sides brought together over past school year

June 11th, 2018 A bicommunal programme titled ‘Imagine’ which aims to promote contact across the divide, managed to bring together 2,000 students and 194 teachers from 40 schools on both sides during the academic year 2017-2018, it said on Monday. The Bi-communal Technical Committee on Education, which was established after the agreement between...
MP says sexual harassment in schools not just isolated cases   Education

MP says sexual harassment in schools not just isolated cases  

May 24th, 2018 A primary school teacher in Limassol has been reported for allegedly sexually harassing a student but the state has been unable to do anything but transfer him to another school, according to Disy MP Efthymios Diplaros. In a press conference on Thursday, Diplaros said he sought to make public two cases he was aware of, in a bid to...
Teachers union takes a step back from spat, want to ‘turn the page’ Education

Teachers union takes a step back from spat, want to ‘turn the page’

May 24th, 2018 By George Psyllides Following an intense public spat with the education minister after the death of a 10-year-old boy who had been injured at school, primary education teachers’ union Poed took a step back on Thursday saying it would focus on health and safety in schools. Poed chairman Phylios Phylactou said teachers had been...
Education minister called to apologise for ‘offensive’ comments   Cyprus

Education minister called to apologise for ‘offensive’ comments  

May 19th, 2018 By Evie Andreou EDUCATION Minister, Costas Hambiaouris, found himself in the dog house on Saturday after both teachers and nurses lashed out on him for comments and actions they found to be “offensive and undermining”. Primary school teachers’ union Poed said they would cut off all communication with Hambiaouris until the end...
Ambulance service inundated with calls from jittery parents and teachers Cyprus

Ambulance service inundated with calls from jittery parents and teachers

May 18th, 2018 Authorities urged people on Friday to refrain from calling the ambulance service for non-emergencies, after receiving scores of calls daily from jittery parents and teachers for minor injuries following the death of a 10-year-old boy after a school accident last week. According to the head of the ambulance service, Riana Constantinou,...
Meritocracy at heart of new teacher appointment system Education

Meritocracy at heart of new teacher appointment system

May 11th, 2018 By Evie Andreou Young graduates would have to wait between 30 and 100 years to be appointed as teachers in state schools, depending on their subject, under the current appointment system, according to an assessment report of the exam results of candidates wishing to work as educators. A report assessing the results of the teaching...
Upgraded water in schools to cut costs and help environment Cyprus

Upgraded water in schools to cut costs and help environment

May 7th, 2018 The first dispensers with chilled filtered drinking water were installed in the Laniteia Lyceum in the Larnaca district on Monday as part of a plan by the education ministry to install them in all schools to “make the everyday life of the students better”, the minister Costas Hambiaouris said. He said the move was a tangible...
Dust masks to be given to all students Cyprus

Dust masks to be given to all students

April 25th, 2018 The education ministry said Wednesday it has started distributing masks to schools to protect pupils from dust. The masks will be handed over to pupils if and when particulate matter 10 (PM10) levels exceed the 100 microgramme per cubic metre. It is the first time education authorities have taken this measure.
Undersubscribed old city schools face closure Education

Undersubscribed old city schools face closure

April 18th, 2018 Undersubscribed old city schools face closure Four schools in the old part of Nicosia are facing closure in the coming years due to the small number of pupils and lack of incentives to attract more children, MPs heard on Wednesday. The House education committee were told that the number of pupils at Ayios Kasianos, Ayios Antonios,...
Expansion of e-services in schools Education

Expansion of e-services in schools

January 31st, 2018 Expansion and integration of e-services in education will allow parents to find out online their children’s exam results while students will have online access to their school curriculum and exam schedules at all times, the education ministry said on Wednesday. Parents will also be able to submit various documents electronically and...
Education ministry urged to stop priest confessions in schools Education

Education ministry urged to stop priest confessions in schools

December 21st, 2017 The Cyprus Humanist Association said on Wednesday they had filed a complaint with the education ministry over a Nicosia primary school that invited a priest to hear pupils’ confessions. According to a spokesman of the group, the event took place earlier in the month when the priest heard the confessions of pupils during teaching hours...
Student attacks teachers Cyprus

Student attacks teachers

December 6th, 2017 A student attacked two teachers at a school on Tuesday afternoon in the Larnaca district. According to police, he was allegedly angered at a remark the teachers made outside the classroom and grabbed one of them, a woman, by the throat. He then attacked another teacher, causing him to fall down. Other members of staff calmed the...
Photovoltaics to be installed in hundreds of schools Education

Photovoltaics to be installed in hundreds of schools

November 15th, 2017 The Council of Ministers on Wednesday approved a joint proposal by the ministries of energy and education for the installation of photovoltaic systems in schools. According to Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis implementing the system will be the responsibility of the education ministry which will select the suppliers. "We think...
Woman linked to child sex abuse in daily contact with pupils (Updated) Education

Woman linked to child sex abuse in daily contact with pupils (Updated)

November 10th, 2017 Attorney-General Costas Clerides will determine what action, if any, will be taken against a woman identified by a court in 2016 as an accomplice to her husband’s sexual abuse of an underage girl but who continues to work on the Tersefanou school board and is in daily contact with pupils, it emerged on Friday. According to local daily...
School seminars raise awareness of racism Cyprus

School seminars raise awareness of racism

October 23rd, 2017 The first round of the ‘Aware’ campaign, spreading the message of acceptance, respect and participation in the fight against racism has been completed, it was announced on Monday. The campaign consisted of a round of seminars in 19 schools all over Cyprus with the aim of informing and sensitising young people about refugees and...
New focus on integrating children from third countries Education

New focus on integrating children from third countries

September 20th, 2017 Education Minister Costas Kadis on Wednesday presented a new programme aimed at parents and teachers, which is focused on the social and educational integration of children from third countries. Kadis said the programme was being co-funded by Cyprus and the European Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. “Actions will mainly be...
Education official mocked in north over 'jetlag' comment Cyprus

Education official mocked in north over 'jetlag' comment

September 19th, 2017 Turkish Cypriot "minister of education" Dr. Ozdemir Berova has been the subject of online mockery after stating that using winter time after October "causes jetlag in humans." Following Yenidüzen's report on Saturday, many Turkish Cypriots took to social media to troll the official. One user wrote, "Will I be jetlagged if I travel...
Parents of disabled children want more school chaperones Cyprus

Parents of disabled children want more school chaperones

September 13th, 2017 Around 50 parents have filed complaints with the children’s rights commissioner over the last few days over the non-appointment of school chaperones for their disabled children, it emerged on Wednesday. The dispute continued on Wednesday at the House education committee meeting as parents cited problems over the chaperone assignment...
Car seat warning as schools open Cyprus

Car seat warning as schools open

September 4th, 2017 With the start of the new school year r, ad safety promotion NGO Reaction on Monday reminded the public that it is dangerous to transport children in vehicles without a proper child car seat. The group called for a revision of the legislation concerning children’s car seats and the introduction of stricter penalties on drivers who...
Turkish Cypriot teachers worried about diminishing of secular education Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot teachers worried about diminishing of secular education

August 24th, 2017 Turkish Cypriot teachers have issued a new plea to authorities in the north to pay more attention to the state of education, saying there were more mosques than schools. They issued a similar complaint in June saying that more money was being poured in religious affairs at the expense of education. KTOS teachers union said at the time...
Over 6,000 candidates for new-look teaching appointments Cyprus

Over 6,000 candidates for new-look teaching appointments

August 21st, 2017 A total of 6,367 graduates have applied to take the first teacher recruitment exams under the new system for appointing teachers, the education ministry said on Monday. The deadline for paying the exam fees was Monday at 2pm while the exams for appointments to all state schools – pre-primary, primary, secondary and technical schools...
Call for back-to-school supplies for poor children   Cyprus

Call for back-to-school supplies for poor children  

August 18th, 2017 Volunteer Commissioner Yiannis Yiannakis is calling on people to donate school materials for around 10,000 poor pupils in Cyprus. Talking to the Cyprus News Agency, he said that the number of pupils in need had fallen from 12,000 last year to 10,000. “This year, as we have done in previous years, in larger numbers, for now fewer...
More funds for fruit and veg in schools Cyprus

More funds for fruit and veg in schools

June 17th, 2017 THE EU has increased its funds for providing children with fruit and vegetable in schools from €380,000 to €790,000, agriculture minister Nicos Kouyialis said on Friday. Speaking at a workshop the minister said that from the school year 2017/2018 the promotion scheme will be combined with providing milk for schools. Kouyialis...
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