#schools

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 ...

Coronavirus measures in schools will be evaluated during a meeting on Monday afternoon with the ministers of health and education. Educational organisations, parents’ confederations and other stakeholders are due to ...

The health ministry announced that 28 students tested positive on Thursday after more than 2,000 close contacts got tested as part of the ‘test to stay’ policy in schools. According to the ...

Parents of primary school children on Wednesday castigated authorities for lack of consultation on key decisions regarding coronavirus health protocols and called for urgent talks to discuss a number of ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas on Tuesday said if the “ground-breaking” test to stay policy is successful at schools, the measure could be expanded to other public services such as hospitals, ...

Teachers complained on Monday they were exhausted with all the changing measures they have to adapt to over coronavirus as the test-to-stay measures started in schools. The system began on ...

Overcrowding is forcing Paphos schools to share facilities and new schools need to be built urgently, district president of the teacher’s union (Oelmek) Giorgos Yiallouris said on Saturday. He ...

A test to stay programme aimed at allowing children who are coronavirus contacts but not infected with Covid-19 to go to school, kicks off on Monday, with the health ministry ...

The government is thinking of expanding the ‘test to stay’ programme to other population groups as a step towards learning to live with the virus, Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said ...

The imminent reopening of schools hangs in the balance amid concerns, shared by teachers’ unions and pediatricians on Monday, that sending children back to class will only add fuel to ...

Covid measures at schools must not disrupt learning for unvaccinated or pupils who have tested positive, the federation of Paphos secondary school parents’ associations said on Wednesday. Head Christodoulos Demetriou ...

Parents keeping their primary school children away from class in protest at the latest round of Covid-19 restrictions were on Tuesday urged to “think again” amid indications they could face ...

A total of 38 positive Covid-19 cases were detected in primary and secondary schools after 21,581 tests carried out on Wednesday – a positivity rate of 0.18 per cent which is below that recorded ...

The health ministry is awaiting details of a reported incident suggesting that around 100 students at a single school were self-isolating, while a government expert says there is a high rate ...

Most primary school children follow the mask and testing mandates imposed last week, the education minister said on Tuesday as those opposing the move continued to destroy property, this time ...

British bases police (SBA) have donated 23 computer towers seized from gambling joints to nine schools. The computer towers, which were seized in SBA Police online gambling raids in 2020, have been ...

Primary schools across the island staged initiatives condemning violence on Monday, in the aftermath of last week’s attacks on schools which included arson and a bombing. Encouraged by primary ...

The House education committee on Wednesday discussed the health protocols in schools against the further spread of Covid-19 with protesters outside calling for the abolition of the measures that include ...

Parents revoked a decision to keep their children from school for one teaching period on Monday to protest the new measures saying they have submitted their suggestions to the education ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas on Wednesday gave instructions for thorough investigation of coronavirus cases in schools to track in time possible transmission chains after one with 27 cases was detected in ...

The institutional framework for handling of sexual offences withing schools is being examined, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromos said on Sunday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, the minister said the ...

The epidemiological condition in schools is looking good, but there is no room for complacency, the ministry of health said on Monday. Health ministry official Carolina Stylianou said on Monday ...

I MAKE a point of not following the Twitter accounts of our self-important scientists, who have become A-list celebrities of the Covid era, but a few days ago I was ...

Yet another school year amid the Covid pandemic kicked off on Tuesday with minor problems and old ‘customs’ involving flares and firecrackers. Over 45,000 pupils returned to school on Tuesday under ...