Posts tagged with "schools"

More funds for fruit and veg in schools Cyprus

More funds for fruit and veg in schools

June 17th, 20171906 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...
Turkish Cypriot teachers complain north has ‘more mosques than schools’ Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot teachers complain north has ‘more mosques than schools’

June 14th, 201710660 Cyprus Turkish Teachers Union (Ktos) has said there are 160 schools compared to 190 mosques in the northern part of Cyprus, complaining that more money was being poured in religious affairs at the expense of education. The union issued a statement after learning that the authorities were preparing to shut down two elementary schools,...
Primary education teachers announce strike Cyprus

Primary education teachers announce strike

June 6th, 20174204 Primary teachers’ union Poed announced on Tuesday that its members in certain districts will be staging an all-day strike on Thursday while those in other areas will go on a strike next week. The union is staging industrial action to protest the approval by parliament of two bills overhauling the system of appointing teachers to...
Almost 60 per cent of teen girls given HPV vaccine through schools Health

Almost 60 per cent of teen girls given HPV vaccine through schools

May 31st, 20173597 Around 5,000 girls aged 12 and 13 have been so far been administered the free human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine against cervical cancer in schools, the association of cancer patients and friends, Pasykaf said on Wednesday. The group said that a good percentage, almost 60 per cent, of female high school pupils responded to the call...
Young entrepreneurs leading the way Cyprus

Young entrepreneurs leading the way

May 14th, 20174332 By Annette Chrysostomou A local school competition has proved pupils not only have original ideas but can also run a successful business. Organiser Junior Achievement (JA) which delivers experiential programmes on the topics of financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship to students asked 380 students in Cypriot...
Campaign launched against school bullying Education

Campaign launched against school bullying

May 9th, 20172896 Hellenic Bank on Tuesday joined forces with the education ministry in the fight against school bullying and launched the campaign ‘Chamogelase’ (Smile). "Our goal is common. No child victim of this phenomenon needs to be alone any more, " the bank’s chairwoman Irena Georgiadou said at the launch while pointing out that school...
Collection of used oil increases, public urged to participate Cyprus

Collection of used oil increases, public urged to participate

April 14th, 20172643 Collective efforts have led to an increase in biofuel production from waste frying oils and to fewer exports, it emerged this week. According to Agriculture Minister, Nicos Kouyialis, in his response to a parliamentary question put forward by the Greens MP Giorgos Perdikis, as to the collection of waste frying oils, there are...
Classrooms damaged in separate fires Crime

Classrooms damaged in separate fires

April 14th, 20171392 Two classrooms in two schools, one in Nicosia the other in Larnaca, were damaged Thursday in a suspected arson attack, the fire service said. The first fire broke out at around 3.45pm in a prefabricated room used as a classroom at the C Latsia primary school, in the Nicosia district. The fire – that burned equipment and damaged the...
House committee divided over Disy’s Enosis proposal Education

House committee divided over Disy’s Enosis proposal

March 1st, 20172052 The House education committee chairman said on Wednesday that a ruling Disy amendment putting the education minister in control of issues such as whether schools should commemorate the 1950 Enosis (union with Greece) referendum was not a matter of priority. Disy had tabled the amendment in the wake of last month’s controversial...
Schools would never teach the true tragedy of Enosis Cyprus

Schools would never teach the true tragedy of Enosis

February 26th, 20173955 IT SEEMS that in Cyprus we have become addicted to living on a knife’s edge of invasions (Turkish and Greek), of the Turkish army breathing down our necks, of tension in our relations with our Turkish Cypriot compatriots and of economic meltdowns. Confirming this addiction our (I avoid any adjective) deputies, carried away by the...
Akinci calls for time change, as confusion reigns in north (Updated) Cyprus

Akinci calls for time change, as confusion reigns in north (Updated)

December 5th, 20162000   Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said on Monday clocks in the north should be set an hour back to align with European winter time, as confusion reigned in schools over what time the bell should ring to start school. “The Turkish Cypriot people should not live in such a mess. This problem must be overcome...
The language gap Cyprus

The language gap

November 13th, 20164311 On a recent trip to Belgium I soon realised that every person I encountered spoke at least four languages, its three national languages – Flemish, French and German – and English. In another small EU country, Luxembourg, the majority of people are fluent in Luxembourgish, French and German. So how does that compare to the...
Backlash against 'hateful' Archbishop over anti-gay comments (Updated) Cyprus

Backlash against 'hateful' Archbishop over anti-gay comments (Updated)

November 1st, 20168117 Archbishop Chrysostomos has announced that the Church plans on establishing schools that will teach among other things that homosexuality is “an unnatural choice”. The comment drew the ire of Accept-LGBTI Cyprus, which said it was high time the Church started loving their neighbour, a reference to the New Testament. It would also...
Organic food spending €5 per capita annually in Cyprus Cyprus

Organic food spending €5 per capita annually in Cyprus

October 21st, 20162354 WITH only to up to €2 million per annum, Cyprus is the EU country which has the lowest turnover from sales of organic food to the public, though the number of organic farmers has increased significantly in recent years. In four EU countries (Denmark, Luxembourg, Austria and Sweden) the per capita consumption of organic food per year...
Kadis promotes reform agenda to primary school heads Cyprus

Kadis promotes reform agenda to primary school heads

October 3rd, 20161236 The reform of the educational system is an obligation to society and its children, Education Minister Costas Kadis said on Monday. Kadis met with preschool and primary education head teachers to discuss reforms that include changes in curriculums and teacher appointments and evaluation. Reforms also concern the introduction of...
Letters

Without teaching about all religions there will be no religious tolerance

Ombudswoman Eliza Savvidou wants action taken to stop schools taking children on visits to religious events even though we are profoundly nearly 100 per cent Christian citizens living in what’s left of our country. She should stop being the EU’s willing executioner of our religious heritage by demands that when one non-believer...
Savvidou: schools no place for religious outings Cyprus

Savvidou: schools no place for religious outings

September 22nd, 20162104 STATE institutions including schools should operate as such and not as faithful adherents to religious traditions and practices, Ombudswoman Eliza Savvidou said, following complaints that a Nicosia public kindergarten took children to a church to worship the relics of a saint during teaching time. The report to the education ministry...
Cypriot children in Skype event with ESA astronaut Cyprus

Cypriot children in Skype event with ESA astronaut

September 22nd, 20161471 More than 1,000 pupils will have the opportunity on Friday to chat through Skype with the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Paolo Nespoli who is getting ready to be launched to the International Space Station on a five-month mission. According to an announcement by the Cyprus Space Exploration Organisation (Cseo), which organised...
Teachers union has failed to back up its claims of shortages, Kadis says Cyprus

Teachers union has failed to back up its claims of shortages, Kadis says

September 21st, 20161389 The public spat between the education ministry and state primary school teachers which led to a one-hour work stoppage on Wednesday is ongoing with union Poed insisting there are staff shortages and minister Costas Kadis asking them to submit evidence to back their claims. Primary education and pre-school children left school an hour...
Primary teachers in one hour walkout Cyprus

Primary teachers in one hour walkout

September 20th, 20161359 State primary school teachers’ union Poed on Tuesday urged parents to support their one-hour work stoppage on Wednesday and criticised the education ministry for misinforming the public as to what goes on in schools. The union will hold a warning strike on Wednesday from noon until 1.05pm over school understaffing and the...
Primary teachers declare work stoppage Cyprus

Primary teachers declare work stoppage

September 15th, 20161406 Primary teachers’ union Poed announced on Thursday that its members will go on a warning work stoppage on September 21 over the status of newly appointed teachers. The union said in an announcement that following a board decision, all its members will go on a “warning work stoppage” at 12pm on September 21. Poed justified...
Teachers union asks for designated smoking rooms in schools featured

Teachers union asks for designated smoking rooms in schools

September 15th, 20162637 SECONDARY teachers’ union Oelmek is asking the education ministry to recall its announcement on the total ban of smoking in schools and called for the creation of smoking rooms for teachers. The education ministry sent a circular to schools in April reminding teachers that smoking is banned from all school areas, internal and...
Budget approved for 103 new teachers as schools open featured

Budget approved for 103 new teachers as schools open

September 9th, 20161480 The House plenary on Friday unanimously but reluctantly approved the amendment of the 2016 finance law to allow the recruitment of 103 teachers. This will increase the number of teachers from 11,967 to 12,070 in 2016. The decision was made after the bill was declared urgent while the government came under fire for its practice to...
Kadis tells primary teachers to stop whining as new strike threat emerges Cyprus

Kadis tells primary teachers to stop whining as new strike threat emerges

September 2nd, 20161501 Education Minister Costas Kadis on Friday urged primary teachers’ union POED to stop whining and cooperate with his ministry so that the new academic year could begin smoothly. The statements followed an announcement by the union that they would decide mid-September whether they would strike. The cause of their discontent, is that a...
Teachers call off planned strike after minister caves Cyprus

Teachers call off planned strike after minister caves

August 31st, 20161554 In a gesture of good will, secondary public school teachers’ union Oelmek on Wednesday called off the strike it announced earlier this month, which it planned to stage at the start of the school year next week, after the education ministry offered compromise solutions on most of the issues the union raised. In a statement after its...
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