Our View: Biggest lesson taught at school is militant unionism
One of the main reasons for failing public education is excessive power wielded by the teaching unions. This union power has created a public school...
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Our View: Public education reaches new level of absurdity
Public education was taken to the next level of absurdity on Monday when the organisation representing secondary school students, known as Psem, urged their teachers...
Our View: Do school teachers really expect to dictate how universities are run?
The arrogance of the teaching unions knows no bounds. On Monday the leaders of all the teaching unions, including that of primary school teachers, sat...
Teaching unions to sue government over wage cuts after strike
TEACHING unions will sue the Education Ministry over pay cuts from a two-day strike held in September, the general-secretary of the teachers’ union Poed Charis...
Teachers’ unions awaiting bridging proposals from parents (Updated)
Teachers unions on Sunday postponed a scheduled meeting to decide whether they would agree to an interim deal with the government concerning their terms of...
Teachers unions push back decisions until Sunday
By Elias THE three main state teachers’ unions will be jointly deciding on Sunday as to whether they will agree to an interim deal with...
Parents attempt to mediate in education crisis
By Peter Michael PARENTS’ organisations attempted on Friday to mediate two-month long crisis between teachers and the state, but failed to quell the brewing strike...
Teacher unions counter-proposal rejected by government (updated)
The government on Tuesday rejected the counter-proposal submitted earlier in the day by the teachers’ union Poed, spokesman Prodromos Prodromou said after it had been...
Two of three teachers’ unions reject latest proposal (Update 2)
As of Saturday, two of the three education unions, secondary-school teachers’ union Oelmek and of technical schoolteachers’ union Oltek, had confirmed they would not be...
State urges teachers unions to accept latest proposal
By Lizzy Ioannidou The government on Friday urged teachers’ unions to accept the latest proposal in view of the start of the school year and...
