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Rizokarpaso students to enjoy afterschool activities for first time since ‘74

Source: Cyprus News AgencySeptember 12, 2019September 12, 2019

By Source: Cyprus News AgencySeptember 12, 2019September 12, 20190388

For the first time since 1974, students attending enclaved schools at Rizokarpaso, will have the chance to enjoy afterschool activities such as learning foreign languages,...

Education

Migrant children quit school at double the rate of native-born children

Lizzy IoannidouSeptember 12, 2019September 12, 2019

By Lizzy IoannidouSeptember 12, 2019September 12, 20190613

Early school-leaving among migrant children in Cyprus is almost twice as high compared with native-born children, with Cyprus being one of the six EU countries...

Education

School canteens still a rip-off, consumer body says

Lizzy IoannidouSeptember 11, 2019

By Lizzy IoannidouSeptember 11, 20190370

Students continue to be ripped off by their school canteens and to be sold substandard products that are not on the official menus, inspections carried...

Education

Cyprus’ pupil-teacher ratio below EU average

Annette ChrysostomouSeptember 11, 2019September 11, 2019

By Annette ChrysostomouSeptember 11, 2019September 11, 20190303

The average number of pupils per teacher at primary school level in Cyprus is 12.6, less than the EU average of 14.7, according to Eurostat...

Education

Reusing textbooks proves popular in Aglandjia school

Source: Cyprus News AgencySeptember 10, 2019September 10, 2019

By Source: Cyprus News AgencySeptember 10, 2019September 10, 20190167

By Kyriaki Christodoulou A mobile library `wanders` the yard of Fifth Primary School in Aglandjia in Nicosia, building environmental awareness through the recycling and reuse...

Education

Education ministry given until end of month to improve Larnaca school

Gina AgapiouSeptember 9, 2019

By Gina AgapiouSeptember 9, 20190160

The parents’ association and staff at Verginia secondary school in Larnaca has given the ministry of education until the end of the month to revamp...

Education

Headscarf-ban girl will return to school after minister intervenes (Updated)

Evie AndreouSeptember 7, 2019September 7, 2019

By Evie AndreouSeptember 7, 2019September 7, 201903709

Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris said on Saturday the issue of a Muslim pupil who was kicked out of her high school on Friday by the...

Education

Secondary schools reopen, problems remain

Gina AgapiouSeptember 6, 2019September 6, 2019

By Gina AgapiouSeptember 6, 2019September 6, 20190743

Exams, uniforms and mobile phones dominate discussion As secondary schools were reopening on Friday, students and the education ministry looked set for new clashes over...

Education

Authorities call time on students’ high jinks on eve of school year

Gina AgapiouSeptember 5, 2019September 5, 2019

By Gina AgapiouSeptember 5, 2019September 5, 20190513

The growing trend of final-year Lyceum students partying on school grounds on the eve of the academic year is to be policed, school heads, both...

Education

School fencing works ‘too slow’, minister says

Gina AgapiouAugust 30, 2019August 30, 2019

By Gina AgapiouAugust 30, 2019August 30, 20190488

THE education minister is not satisfied with progress to create fencing around schools in Larnaca, which is part of an upgrade to security following the...

Cyprus

Schools construction for new academic year to reach €37 million

Peter MichaelAugust 27, 2019

By Peter MichaelAugust 27, 20190169

Construction works at schools for the year 2019-2020 will cost approximately €37 million, the education ministry announced on Tuesday for works set to improve safety...

Education

Education ministry signs deal with OEV for energy efficiency in schools

Evie AndreouJuly 22, 2019

By Evie AndreouJuly 22, 20190145

The education ministry signed an agreement on Monday with the Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV) on the promotion of educational programmes on energy and the...

Education

School canteens ripping off pupils, inspection finds

George PsyllidesApril 4, 2019

By George PsyllidesApril 4, 20190236

SCHOOL canteen inspections carried out until February have found price violations and substandard products, while pupils were also sold products that were not on the...

Education

EU experts in Cyprus to advise education ministry on integration of migrant children

Staff ReporterMarch 26, 2019

By Staff ReporterMarch 26, 2019069

At the request of the education ministry, the European Commission has sent experts on the integration of children with a migrant background. According to the...

Opinion

The misinformation of cowardly online commentators

Christos PanayiotidesMarch 17, 2019March 18, 2019

By Christos PanayiotidesMarch 17, 2019March 18, 2019096

Half-truths, cherry-picking and mud-throwing By Christos P Panayiotides I recently found myself at the receiving end of a mud-smearing campaign from a handful of anonymous...

Health

Cabinet approves national cancer strategy, child obesity programmes

Evie AndreouFebruary 20, 2019

By Evie AndreouFebruary 20, 2019071

The cabinet on Wednesday approved the national strategy on cancer and has called on the committee in charge to prepare a comprehensive action plan. It...

Education

Students protest garners little sympathy

Annette ChrysostomouFebruary 7, 2019February 7, 2019

By Annette ChrysostomouFebruary 7, 2019February 7, 2019039

Around 2,000 students protested amid rain showers outside the ministry of education on Thursday against the introduction of four-month exams. Education Minister Costas Hambiaouris strongly...

Education

Parents at odds with student body over new planned protest

Annette ChrysostomouFebruary 5, 2019

By Annette ChrysostomouFebruary 5, 2019058

The secondary-schools parents association on Tuesday expressed their disagreement with a protest pupils have planned for Thursday. Student group Psem called on all students to...

Cyprus

Church issues warning over Scientology ‘infiltration’

Evie AndreouFebruary 1, 2019

By Evie AndreouFebruary 1, 20190180

The Church of Cyprus on Friday warned that the foundation for a Drug-Free World was a branch of the Church of Scientology which, it said,...

Education

Claims by Scientology-linked anti-drugs group ‘baseless and misleading’ authorities say

Evie AndreouJanuary 31, 2019January 31, 2019

By Evie AndreouJanuary 31, 2019January 31, 20190178

Anti-drugs authorities on Thursday called claims by a little-known group that narcotics were sold at a school canteen were “baseless and misleading” and questioned why...