#schools

Everyone has the right to keep their children from going to school if they don’t want them tested for coronavirus but they shouldn’t complain later about their inability ...

Mandatory rapid testing at schools does not affect children’s rights to privacy or education, children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelidou said on Thursday in response to threats of legal ...

Starting from Thursday, the health ministry will deploy 27 mobile testing units to carry out rapid antigen coronavirus tests in schools for pupils, teachers and school staff. This follows the ministry’...

The last few days have exposed the government’s erratic approach to dealing with the pandemic, an approach that fails to inspire any confidence or reassure people that it knows ...

Parents on Tuesday said they were outraged by a new health ministry decree that means all secondary school students must take weekly rapid tests. According to the ministry of health, ...

Authorities on Monday justified the decision to postpone for a week the return of junior high-school pupils to classrooms citing the coronavirus cases recently detected in schools, warning things could ...

Teachers and school staff must undergo a mandatory weekly rapid antigen test starting Saturday, the health and education ministries announced on Friday. This decree comes as a response to the ...

Following coronavirus clusters in two Limassol schools, authorities have seen a surge in infections at a regional primary school in Eptagonia, a village close to the district border with Larnaca. ...

Coronavirus clusters have emerged in two primary schools in Limassol including pupils and teachers, forcing the closure of one on Wednesday, as health authorities were trying to trace all the ...

US study shows classrooms not a hotbed for Covid transmissions By Antigoni Pitta With students of all ages having had almost a year of fragmented schooling, parents and experts are ...

Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Friday urged parents to encourage their final year children retuning back to school on Monday to get tested for coronavirus. Though the testing of pupils ...

Children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelides has expressed concern that domestic laws in Cyprus still do not fully comply with the provisions and principles of the Convention of Rights of ...

The delay in reopening secondary schools is worrying and could be putting a strain on the school system, the head of the confederation of secondary school parents say. Charalambos Dionysiou ...

The forthcoming opening up of primary schools must be carried out in an organised and proper manner, president of primary school teachers union Poed Myria Vasiliou told the Cyprus News ...

The secondary school parents’ association has called on the health ministry and government Covid-19 advisory team to allow for final-year students to return to school. Their call on Monday stated ...

More than 80 per cent of public schools now have access to speedier internet and the project is expected to be concluded by the end of January, the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority ...