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Cabinet approves hiring of new teachers Cyprus

Cabinet approves hiring of new teachers

August 24th, 20161175 The cabinet has approved the hiring of additional teachers so that schools are fully staffed for the new academic year which starts in September, Education Minister Costas Kadis said on Wednesday. The decision will be sent to parliament for the final approval of an additional budget “for a smooth start of the new school...
Turkey's Erdogan shuts private schools, charities, unions World

Turkey's Erdogan shuts private schools, charities, unions

July 23rd, 20161831 President Tayyip Erdogan tightened his grip on Turkey on Saturday, ordering the closure of thousands of private schools, charities and other institutions in his first decree since imposing a state of emergency after the failed military coup. A restructuring of Turkey's once untouchable military also drew closer, with a planned meeting...
AG says teachers exemptions should be regulated by law featured

AG says teachers exemptions should be regulated by law

July 20th, 20162077 THE issue of teaching-hours exemptions for state educators, which is costing the state millions, must be properly regulated by law, the attorney-general has said. In a legal opinion delivered to Education Minister Costas Kadis, AG Costas Clerides said that secondary legislation should regulate the matter of teachers being exempted...
Kadis says looking at ‘all aspects’ of audit office letter Cyprus

Kadis says looking at ‘all aspects’ of audit office letter

June 2nd, 20161215   Education Minister Costas Kadis said on Thursday his ministry was looking at all aspects of a letter from Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides, asking him to set the record straight on dubious practices in state schools that were costing the state millions. Kadis said that his ministry would respond as soon as possible and...
A third of children under three cared for only by parents Cyprus

A third of children under three cared for only by parents

May 15th, 20162016 IN Cyprus, only 32 per cent of children under the age of three were cared for solely by their parents in 2014, one of the lowest percentages in Europe, according to a Eurostat report published on Friday. Care only by the parents was the main childcare arrangement for under-threes in a majority of EU member states. There were, however,...
Firecracker menace, and injuries way down this year, police say Cyprus

Firecracker menace, and injuries way down this year, police say

May 2nd, 20161559 A 23-year-old man in Limassol was the only person to have sustained any injuries from a firecracker this year, police spokesman Andreas Angelides said on Monday. Hailing the figure as a successful result of a police campaign that saw 334 lectures across schools and organised bodies in one month alone, Angelides specified the injuries...
Art in action in Tala  Cyprus

Art in action in Tala 

April 14th, 20161706 TALA council has joined forces with ‘Pafos2017’ to encourage young artists from Paphos to use their imagination and participate in a community project to decorate bare walls found close to the local amphitheatre. The event will take place on Friday and Saturday at Tala Amphitheatre car park between 10am-4pm. Erica Charalambous,...
Dealing with violence in schools Cyprus

Dealing with violence in schools

April 9th, 20161785 THE Education ministry’s ‘direct intervention unit’ (OAP), that deals with violence and delinquency, responded to more than 1,000 requests from primary, secondary and technical schools in the past six years, it was announced on Friday. OAP and its ‘Observatory on Violence in School’ programme was established in 2010 as one...
Harnessing the power of technology Cyprus

Harnessing the power of technology

March 6th, 20162328 IN THE digital age it is important schools keep abreast of the latest developments to keep up with their students let alone lead them down new paths. The days of the interactive white board are ending as newer technologies are introduced in the classroom. And in Cyprus it is the private schools that are leading this charge. The...
Friendship programme receives over 200 applications Cyprus

Friendship programme receives over 200 applications

March 4th, 20162349 More than 200 applications have been received for the 2016 bi-communal Cyprus Friendship Programme (CFP), compared to around 160 over the two previous years. Sotia Adamidou, Greek Cypriot coordinator of the CFP attributes the growth in numbers to two factors. “For the first time, we have let teens know through Facebook,” she...
Cyprus celebrates ‘Stinky Thursday’   Cyprus

Cyprus celebrates ‘Stinky Thursday’  

March 3rd, 20162466 Cyprus was celebrating ‘Stinky Thursday’ today with songs, meat on the spit and plenty of drinking while schoolchildren played games.  Tsiknopempti or Stinky Thursday, which marks the beginning of the Carnival festivities, is also the beginning of the gradual weaning off meat and dairy in preparation for the 50-day lent period that...
New medical council for teachers’ sick leave Cyprus

New medical council for teachers’ sick leave

February 3rd, 20161222 The Cabinet on Tuesday approved a proposal setting up a medical council to evaluate state teachers’ sick leave. Submitted by the education ministry, its purpose, the Cabinet said in a statement would be twofold. First to ensure genuine cases were not rejected and secondly to ensure any attempts to abuse the system were...
Greek Cypriot teachers plant trees for peace Cyprus

Greek Cypriot teachers plant trees for peace

December 29th, 20151819 Greek Cypriot teachers visited schools in the north on Tuesday and planted three olive trees as a sign of peace. The 60 teachers, accompanied by their Turkish Cypriot counterparts, visited three schools of primary and secondary education for the first time in over two years. Turkish Cypriot teachers are expected to the same in...
Collecting bottle caps can help those with rheumatism Cyprus

Collecting bottle caps can help those with rheumatism

December 23rd, 20156533 Thousands of tons of plastic bottle caps are expected to be collected by May 1 next year through a programme titled ‘I can`t get enough of them’, organised by the ministry of education and the Cyprus Antirheumatic Association. Special yellow bins have been placed at schools and kindergartens in Nicosia and Limassol districts and...
Cyprus to get €4.8 million from EU fruit and milk school subsidy schemes Cyprus

Cyprus to get €4.8 million from EU fruit and milk school subsidy schemes

December 16th, 20152049 Cyprus is due to receive a total of €4.8 million from the EU fruit, vegetable and milk school subsidy schemes over the next six years, Agriculture Minister Nicos Kouyialis said on Wednesday. The island will receive €800,000 euro annually during the period. Disbursement of the funds was made possible after an agreement was...
Los Angeles closes all schools after receiving threat Recommended

Los Angeles closes all schools after receiving threat

December 15th, 20151301 By Alex Dobuzinskis Los Angeles, the second largest school district in the United States, shut down all of its schools on Tuesday after officials reported receiving an unspecified threat and ordered a search of all schools. Officials asked parents to keep all of the system's 643,000 students at home to allow time for a full search...
Parents call for teachers’ psych evaluation Cyprus

Parents call for teachers’ psych evaluation

December 12th, 20152239 By Andria Kades PARENTS are calling on the education ministry to have teachers undergo a psychological evaluation by a medical board in light of recent news of teachers hitting students. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), head of the secondary education parents association Petros Koulermos said this would be “a...
Brussels schools, metro reopen under tight security Global terrorism

Brussels schools, metro reopen under tight security

November 25th, 20151172 By Thomas Escritt and Philip Blenkinsop Schools and much of the Brussels metro system reopened on Wednesday as the Belgian capital started to return to normal after four days of lockdown, but troops on the street were a reminder it remains on the highest alert. With police still hunting a local man who is a prime suspect in the Nov....
All 15 teens in UDI attacks charged and released Cyprus

All 15 teens in UDI attacks charged and released

November 20th, 20157679 All 15 teenagers arrested in connection with the attack on Turkish Cypriots were charged and released, police said on Friday. The suspects are all aged between 16 and 18 years old, go to the same school and were arrested for assault causing actual bodily harm, malicious damage, disturbing the peace, incitement to hate and violence,...
Four Israeli cities, citing security, ban Arab workers from schools World

Four Israeli cities, citing security, ban Arab workers from schools

October 18th, 20151390 By Jeffrey Heller At least four Israeli cities, including the commercial capital Tel Aviv, have temporarily banned Arab labourers from working in their schools as they struggle to calm public fears fuelled by the worst surge of Palestinian street attacks in years. Israel's cabinet also imposed more security measures on Sunday after...
Dust shows signs of abating, but levels still high (Update 2) Cyprus

Dust shows signs of abating, but levels still high (Update 2)

September 9th, 20152543 By Andria Kades Despite some improvement, dust levels remained high on Wednesday across the island, the met office said, as the opening of public schools, scheduled for Thursday, was postponed by one day. The Cyprus Institute said the dust cloud was seriously worrying with the readings in the dust’s diameter at three milligrammes...
Offering a hopeful start to the school year for low income families Cyprus

Offering a hopeful start to the school year for low income families

July 30th, 20151951 By Evie Andreou CHILDREN should return to school in September with hope, the "Hope for Children" organisation said on Wednesday at the launch of its third annual "Back to school with Hope” campaign. The campaign, organised with the support of the Andrey & Julia Dashin’s Foundation, is part of the "Eradicating Child Poverty in...
Around 2,000 sought help for bullying last year Cyprus

Around 2,000 sought help for bullying last year

July 24th, 20151498 Over 2,000 Gymnasium and Lyceum students sought help for bullying during the year, according to Education Minister Costas Kadis annual general report for 2014. Although comparative figures cannot be made as ‘bullying’ is a new section in the report, it illustrates the number of high school students seeking help for the...
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