#schools

Secondary school pupils will no longer be held back a year due to low performance, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Wednesday after the cabinet approved his ministry’s proposals. ...

Police are investigating an incident at a Limassol high school on Friday during which pupils and staff were injured. According to police statement, a scuffle broke out between pupils attending ...

Amidst reports that teachers were seen smoking at high schools, state secondary education teachers’ union Oelmek on Thursday said all faculty has “fully complied” with the legislation. The education ministry ...

Stereotypical perceptions and opinions about the sexes are responsible for unequal treatment and substantial and targeted education is necessary to deal with the situation, House president Annita Demetriou said on ...

More than 500 new Covid-19 cases were reported in school units in the last week, creating small transmission chains, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Friday. Since Monday, around 500 cases were ...

Gymnasium, lyceum and technical school students returned to classes on Wednesday for the new academic year. Teachers have been back in the classroom since September 1, preparing to welcome students back. ...

There is a strange habit in the Cyprus media always to seek the opinions of teaching union bosses about public schools and education ministry policy. For the last couple of ...

A €20 million deal to digitally upgrade all schools by 2025 was signed by the education ministry on Tuesday. “In essence, this is the biggest technological upgrade and one of the biggest ...

Two groups, the Union of United Parents and the teachers branch of the Cyprus Equality Union, said on Monday they would stage a protest outside the presidential palace on Wednesday ...

An initiative is underway to find and rescue historical material on the island’s primary and secondary schools with a view to setting up an educational history archive at the ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Friday rubbished allegations of racist motives by teachers for incidents in secondary schools. Following a meeting with the association of secondary school headteachers, Prodromou noted ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Thursday announced he would meet with secondary education headteachers to discuss the “worrying” number of incidents in schools. Following several complaints, including a recent sexual ...

The education ministry has prepared a five-year programme costing around €100 million for air conditioning in schools, minister Prodromos Prodromou has revealed. He told CNA the policy position was that there ...

The education ministry, which had initially rejected a student’s claims that she was sexually abused at the school, on Thursday confirmed police were investigating the incident. “Regarding the incident ...

The primary school door-to-door bus system is being billed as a way to tackle chronic traffic jams while offering a service to the public which is owed by the state. ...

The embattled twice-yearly exams programme came in for further criticism on Monday, as Akel reiterated its call for them to be scrapped and MPs discussed various proposals to reform the ...

The House human rights committee on Monday proposed the establishment of a sex education programme across all levels of state education. The issue was discussed in the presence of Education ...

In a noisy and smoky atmosphere, hundreds of students were seen throwing flares and carrying torches, as they marched in numbers to the Presidential Palace, along with teachers and parents ...

Main opposition party Akel on Wednesday said it plans to propose ending twice-yearly exams, a matter that will be urgently discussed by the House education committee next Wednesday. On Thursday, ...

Parents and pupils associations will take their united stance against quarterly exams to the presidential palace next month after accusing the education ministry of turning a blind eye to practical ...

The House education committee will meet urgently on Monday to discuss the results of the newly introduced twice-yearly exams at lyceums amid fury from parents and students over the poor ...

Students arrive late at the set locations providing free coronavirus tests as part of the ‘test to stay’ policy, resulting in a commotion and loss of “valuable teaching time”, the ...

More coronavirus cases are being detected among students after the implementation of the test to stay policy, risking school closure, secondary state teachers’ union Oelmek said on Monday. On the ...

Fully vaccinated children and those who recovered from the virus will now be excluded from the test to stay policy, said the health ministry on Monday as it announced that ...