#University of Cyprus (UCy)

In a move to support students facing financial difficulties, the University of Cyprus’ student welfare association awarded 58 scholarships worth a total of €59,000. The scholarships were granted based on socio-economic criteria ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and rector of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Gerasimos Siassos, announced their shared intention for NKUA to establish a branch at the University of ...

The introduction of undergraduate programmes in foreign languages at Cyprus’ public universities will “undermine” the Pancyprian examinations, unions said on Friday. Teachers’ unions Oelmek and Oltek, the secondary school parents’ ...

The number of students admitted to Greek-language programmes at the University of Cyprus will not be reduced with the introduction of foreign-language degrees, rector Tasos Christofides has said. Speaking on ...

For months now, the House education committee has been debating two bills on higher education, tabled by the government, without reaching agreement. Wednesday’s behind-closed-doors meeting was cut short, because ...

The University of Cyprus is looking for €91m to build new student housing that will provide rooms for 870 students. This surprised deputies who discussed the matter because there had been ...

The department of pharmacology at the University of Cyprus (UCy) is collecting unwanted medicines from the public, assistant medical school professor Nikolas Dietis, said on Friday. The unwanted medicines – expired ...

The government will withdraw its request for the University of Cyprus to pay overtime to its seconded employee and current deputy government spokeswoman Doxa Komodromou and inform the university that ...

The phenomenon of ‘brain drain’ may not be as dire in Cyprus as in other countries but it is concerning, according to House speaker Annita Demetriou. Speaking at the University ...

The inclusion of the University of Cyprus (UCy) among the world’s top 1000 higher education institutions in world university rankings, was praised by President Nikos Christodoulides. For the year 2023, the ...

The acting director of the University of Cyprus’s library Elena Diomides Parpouna on Sunday rubbished allegations that the building flooded, after videos circulating the media showed rainwater leaking from ...

The server used to direct recent cyberattacks against the land registry and the University of Cyprus (UCy) has been taken over, Director for the police Cybercrime Combat unit, Andreas Anastasiades ...

At the end of last year, and after the University of Cyprus (UCy) had formally filed its budget request for €81.2 million, it later requested an additional €58.5 million, the Audit Office ...

The biobank.cy centre on Tuesday stressed it was autonomous as it sought to clarify the position of Andrea Christofidou, who became embroiled in the row between the auditor general ...

The House education committee was held under a tense atmosphere on Wednesday, after the auditor general accused the University of Cyprus of trying to mislead parliament over its budget. This ...

The Cyprus Cancer Research Institute (CCRI) is “a jewel for our country,” said EU Health Commissioner, Stella Kyriakides, on Friday. Kyriakides toured the site of the soon-to-be completed CCRI’s ...

Although nobody acknowledges it, government in Cyprus, regardless of who is in charge, has had its hands tied by unions for decades. Its policies are regularly curtailed or distorted by ...

Two public tertiary institutions are collaborating to offer for the first time an inter-university English language postgraduate degree on design for social innovation. The University of Cyprus and the Cyprus ...

The University of Cyprus has ranked among the 401-500 best in the THE World University Rankings. According to the University of Cyprus, this is the eighth consecutive year that the ...

LGBTQI+ organisations participated in the first-ever rainbow festival of the University of Cyprus (UCY), sending a message of inclusion across the university community. UCY Rainbow Festival 2022 was organised on campus ...

UCy researchers find new strain of HIV-1 Molecular researchers at the University of Cyprus (UCy), in collaboration with the Gregorios AIDS Clinic at Larnaca general hospital, have discovered a new ...

Six academics of the University of Cyprus received the teaching excellency award for the first time this year. The academics were awarded during the graduation ceremony of the university where ...

University of Cyprus professor Constantia Alexandrou received an international honorary distinction when she became the first Cypriot chairwoman of the European Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). The professor ...

BEFORE the University of Cyprus was set up, there was a big debate about the language that should be used. One camp was in favour of English as this would ...