Wide support pledged for afternoon teachers’ strike
Teachers and unions on Tuesday reaffirmed their support for afternoon state school teachers asking to be given contracts, stressing they are ready to continue their...
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Akel backs teachers over strike
Striking teachers on Tuesday received support from political parties although parents once more raised the issue of potential disruptions to their children’s education. Teachers working...
Biology teachers threaten action over low amount of lab time
Secondary school biology teachers have threatened to take measures if there are no developments on their demand that the education ministry introduce changes so the...
Coronavirus: not enough substitute teachers to cover absences, union says
Absences as a result of Covid-19 in the past few weeks have put a strain on the substitute teacher system, primary school teachers association (Poed)...
Coronavirus: decree mandates testing for all teachers and school staff
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...
Coronavirus: minister says teachers are obliged to get tested
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....
Our View: Even in times of emergency teachers have to benefit personally to help out
In times of a national emergency, like the one we have been in since March, we would have thought there would be a unity of...
Teachers call for distance learning at lower secondary schools
Responding to a government decision for distance learning in the last three forms in high school as one of a series of new measures to...
More than 73 per cent of teachers are women
More than 73 per cent of school teachers in Cyprus are women, higher than the EU average, a study published by Eurostat on Monday, World...
Coronavirus: Prodromou calls on parents and teachers to cooperate after mask backlash
Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou on Saturday called on parents and teachers to cooperate with the back-to-school coronavirus measures after the mandatory mask rule sparked a...
School religion teachers say did not censor student who criticised them
Public school theology teachers, members of the high school teachers’ union Oelmek, said on Tuesday they did not seek to censor a high school pupil...
Over 1,200 students and 162 teachers from both sides brought together in 2019/2020
The Bicommunal Technical Committee on Education said on Wednesday it had completed the ‘Imagine’ programme for the school year 2019-2020, bringing together 1,285 students and...
Tales from the coffeeshop: Moaning spreading quicker than the coronavirus
THE AMOUNT of moaning we have been subjected to from teachers and their teenage proteges in the last week because some of them had to...
Our View: Teachers turning us into nation of moaning minnies
For union bosses to be considered good at their job they need well-developed moaning skills. It is not enough to moan, but they also have...
Oelmek demands end to probes against teachers based on anonymous complaints
Secondary education teachers (Oelmek) on Tuesday demanded the termination of investigations launched following anonymous complaints against educators. In a letter to the education minister, Oelmek...
State primary teachers to meet on pension plan
State’s primary school teachers will discuss the pension plan on Saturday, teachers’ unions announced on Wednesday. The pension plan for all civil servants changed after...
Protest held against archbishop (update 2)
With banners saying ‘No to church despotism’ and ‘A secular state – a clean state’, around 200 people protested outside the archbishopric on Wednesday morning...
Students abstain from class over exam change (Updated)
High school students and students at technical schools did not attend lessons during the third and fourth period on Tuesday in a protest against recently...
Majority of teachers reject strike action over exams
The majority of teachers on Monday morning decided not to stage work stoppages to protest against recently introduced four-monthly exams in high schools. After 100...
Row erupts over school prayers after teacher’s reported refusal
A row about the saying of prayers at a public school has reignited the discussion on religious activities in the education system. It was reported...