#schools

Member of the European Parliament Fidias Panayiotou on Monday called for a protest at Nicosia’s Eleftheria Square against the government’s ban of mobile phones from schools. He said ...

By Charalambos Charalambous Education serves as the bedrock of any society’s development. To ensure we adequately prepare future generations for the complexities of the modern world, we must rethink ...

Portacabins being used to temporarily house classrooms at Lapithos’ Yavuzlar high school have been placed on a dried-up river bed, Cyprus Turkish secondary education teachers’ union (Ktoeos) chairwoman Selma Eylem ...

The Pan-Cyprian Student Co-ordinating Committee (Psem) said on Thursday that the issue of installing air conditioning in schools had become a mockery because the president and others had not fulfilled ...

The government on Tuesday announced a support package for schoolchildren worth €9.5 million, ahead of the start of the new school year in September. The package, given the name “Together at ...

A red warning is in place for Friday, from 11am to 5pm, as temperatures are expected to peak at 45C inland and 35 in the mountains. The met office said early ...

A total of 200 air conditioning units will be installed in schools in Limassol and Nicosia by August 10, the head of the school boards committee promised on Thursday. Committee chairman Dinos ...

The vast majority of private preschools and kindergartens will remain open on Friday despite high temperatures that will force state education to close early, the association representing the private sector ...

The House education committee on Wednesday discussed the plague of sweltering heat in schools, amid a three-year education ministry plan to roll out air conditioning units across all schools at ...

CCTV cameras will be rolled out in 10 high schools across Limassol, as staff have been dealing with hooded figures setting fire at the premises, it emerged on Wednesday. Head of ...

The secondary school principals’ association (Sedmek) on Wednesday condemned acts of delinquency by students and called for decisive action to combat such instances – the frequency of which has risen dramatically. ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Thursday reiterated the government’s commitment to enhancing both the structural and pedagogical functions of schools “in order to fully meet contemporary educational requirements and ...

Limassol students will not attend classes over escalating frustration about dilapidated buildings and overcrowding, the parents’ association announced on Tuesday. “On May 17, the students of the six Ypsonas schools will ...

Drug alarmism has always been very dear to politicians and journalists. In the past, they would talk about ‘white death’ with reference to marijuana, giving the impression that someone smoking ...

The education ministry on Friday said a spate of recent reports about violence and sexual abuse in public schools were isolated incidents, which are a part of the wider community. “...

A preschool road safety park was officially opened in the Famagusta district town of Sotira on Thursday. The park was opened by Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, with the aim of ...

Overnight security guards and CCTV cameras are set to be installed to protect schools from potential vandalism and trespassing over the Easter holidays, school boards chairman Dinos Ellinas said on ...

Turkish Cypriot Leader Ersin Tatar on Thursday made another intervention on the matter of the “fake diploma scandal” which has engulfed the north’s higher education sector. Speaking on the ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou committed her ministry to building new schools and upgrading existing ones in the town and district of Larnaca. Speaking during a visit to the town’s ...

Greek Cypriots living in Rizokarpaso are being “used as political pawns” by the Republic’s government, the north’s ‘foreign minister’ Tahsin Ertugruloglu said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Cyprus ...

Officials from the north on Monday entered the three Greek Cypriot schools in Rizokarpaso to “carry out checks”, the education ministry said. They said the officials, who could not be ...

The education ministry on Wednesday passed the buck on to the parents’ association of a nursery, saying it was the parents who removed a book depicting families with gay parents ...

Headteachers say they are coping well, but what about outside of school? Recent figures, released in November by the Schools Board of Nicosia, show that 49.5 per cent of schoolchildren in ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou will inform the Culture and Education Committee of the EU parliament on issues faced by Greek Cypriot schools in the north in Rizokarpaso. According to an ...