Coronavirus: ministry slammed for firing contract teacher who refused test (Updated)
The education ministry was slammed on Saturday for firing a contract teacher after they refused to undergo the mandatory weekly rapid test for coronavirus. In...
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Education ministry probe after teacher charged with assault on colleague
The education ministry on Tuesday said police and its own officials were investigating an alleged assault by one teacher against another at a Limassol primary school...
Coronavirus: Teacher tests positive, pupils quarantined (update 2)
A number of pupils in two high-schools in Nicosia and Famagusta were placed in quarantine after a teacher tested positive to the coronavirus, it emerged...
Probe launched against head teacher for controversial artworks (pics)
The education ministry on Wednesday said it has launched a probe into a high school head teacher whose artworks have raised much controversy seeing him...
Coronavirus: teacher tests positive in Aglandjia
A teacher at an elementary school in Aglandjia has tested positive for the coronavirus, media reports said on Tuesday. The parents’ association is letting the parents know while the...
New accolade for Cypriot teacher
Cypriot teacher Popi Nicolaou has once again won an international award for excellence in teaching. While she was presented with the Global Teacher Award in...
Three teens charged after teacher injured during argument
Paphos police on Tuesday arrested three teens in connection with an attack of a high school teacher, two 16-year-olds and a 15-year-old. They were charged...
Teacher who allegedly used violence against boy, 9, is suspended
A Limassol primary school teacher who allegedly used violence against a student leading to a head injury was suspended on Tuesday pending the completion of...
Teacher remanded after sexual harassment claim
A teacher was arrested in Paphos and remanded into custody for eight days on Saturday after a 16-year-old girl claimed he sexually harassed her. According...
‘Stepfather teaching despite sexual assault charges against him’
A young woman who had reported her stepfather for sexual assault against her when she was a minor has sent a letter to the education...
Man pleads not guilty to defrauding retired teacher out of €571,000
A 56-year-old man pleaded not guilty before a Paphos court on Tuesday in connection with obtaining €571,000 under false pretenses from a retired teacher. The...
UCy teacher wins award
Dr Stamatoula Panagakou, a member of the teaching staff of the University of Cyprus has been awarded the 2018 Political Studies Association (PSA) Jennie Lee...
Teacher arrested after brutality claims (Updated)
Paphos police arrested on Friday the teacher who allegedly assaulted four high-school pupils. The pupils complained on Thursday that the man assaulted them during their...
Supreme Court upholds decision to free paedophile
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision to suspend the two-and-a-half-year jail term given to a 32-year-old paedophile, also rejecting an appeal against the sentence...
Police investigating pupil beating claim
Police and school authorities are investigating a report that a teacher in Limassol hit a 13-year-old pupil’s head on the desk in the classroom, sending...
Larnaca teacher alleges attack by student (Updated)
Police are looking into a complaint made by a teacher that for as yet unknown reasons he was attacked by a 15-year-old boy at a...
Teacher gets suspended jail sentence for sexual exploitation of child
A 33-year-old high-school teacher was given a suspended two-and-a-half years in Paphos after he was found guilty of sexual exploitation of a child and possession...
Kadis: Brussels affair was badly handled but teacher posting was justified
Mistakes were made in the handling of the secondment by the education ministry of Despo Sergiou, a teacher – and elected member of ruling Disy’s...
Our View: Kadis clearly violated ministers’ code of ethics
MINISTER of education Costas Kadis, having engaged in the most glaring case of nepotism in ensuring the secondment of a teacher with Disy connections to...
Kindergarten teacher under investigation for allegedly dragging child by the legs
Police are investigating reports made against a Limassol kindergarten teacher who is alleged to have dragged a five-year-old child in her care some six metres...