Registration at north’s unis down by 11 per cent
The number of new students being registered at the north’s universities this academic year is 11 per cent lower than last year, it was revealed on Tuesday.
A total of 12,180 ...
MPs call for clear guidelines for setting up of foreign universities
The education ministry is set to present its strategy for higher education in September, it emerged during a House education committee meeting on Wednesday that also discussed the regulations for ...
Student numbers in Cyprus have doubled in a decade
The number of students in Cyprus has doubled in the last ten years, Health Minister Michael Damianos said, while addressing on Friday a Frederick University graduation ceremony in Nicosia.
The ...
North uni’s dentistry faculty has licence revoked
The dentistry faculty at Morphou’s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) had its licence to teach temporarily revoked on Wednesday.
The north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak) ...
North’s education standards chief insists own degree is real
Turgay Avci, chairman of the north’s higher education standards authority (Yodak), insisted on Monday that his own degree is real.
Avci had faced allegations that his degree, which he ...
Ozersay reveals university’s ‘illegality’
Former Turkish Cypriot chief negotiator for the Cyprus problem has revealed a document allegedly showing a university in the north, of which the rector was invited to meet ‘education minister’ ...
Easy student visas in north are driving human smuggling
Many students never attend university and are either trafficked or enter the Republic
By Esra Aygin
The ease with which student visas are issued, the inadequate legal framework, and the ...
Coronavirus: Former rector slams UCy SafePass move; students satisfied (Updated)
Students and research staff on Thursday welcomed the decision of the University of Cyprus to allow class attendance with a SafePass, but a former rector slammed it as unacceptable and ...