Students and pensioners protest against bus fares
By Peter Stevenson STUDENTS, parents and pensioners gathered on Thursday outside the communications ministry to ask that the government rethink its decision to begin charging...
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The sorry state of public education
By Constantinos Psillides WHENEVER someone mentions educational reform or educational overhaul, a vivid memory comes to mind. Back in 2004, a year into the presidency...
Our view: No half-measures for teacher appointment reform
FOR YEARS now, this newspaper has been calling for an end to the scandalous, ‘waiting list’ system of hiring secondary school teachers by the state....
NG to hire surplus contract teachers
By Elias Hazou PUBLIC-school teachers whose contracts were not renewed for the 2013-2014 academic year are to get jobs in the National Guard, the government...
Our View: The state education system set up to serve indolent teachers
TEACHING unions and their political patrons AKEL have been making a big fuss over the government’s plans not to renew the annual contracts of a...
Teachers union accuses state of back-pedaling on deal
By Elias Hazou IN A bid to placate educators, the government has said it was doing all it could to limit the number of part-time...
Part-time jobs on offer for unemployed teachers
THE EDUCATION ministry hopes to offer jobs to unemployed teachers on a part-time basis for the coming school year it said yesterday. The ministry is...
‘Hands off our ACs’ teachers say
By Peter Stevenson SECONDARY teachers union OELMEK is calling on all headmasters to disobey orders from the education ministry to remov air-conditioning (AC) units from...
Teacher protest (June 5)
Teachers employed by the state to provide afternoon and night classes staged a demonstration outside the education ministry on Wednesday morning, demanding collective agreements. The...