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New rector for University of Cyprus Education

New rector for University of Cyprus

October 3rd, 2018 Tassos Christofides, a professor at the department of mathematics and statistics, was voted in as the new rector of the University of Cyprus on Wednesday. Tassos Christofides, who is replacing outgoing Constantinos Christofides, has 25 years of working experience in academic and consulting activities in the areas of probability,...
MBA students take learning overseas Education

MBA students take learning overseas

September 20th, 2018 Students on the MBA programme at the University of Cyprus took part in two international study weeks over the summer holiday. The first was a study trip to JAMK University of Applied Sciences in Jyväskylä, Finland, where they attended the course Microeconomics of Competitiveness, originally developed at Harvard Business School by...
Archaeological finds in Palaipaphos show extensive trade networks Cyprus

Archaeological finds in Palaipaphos show extensive trade networks

August 17th, 2018 FINDINGS in Palaipaphos have been able to establish the extensive trade networks of the island from the end of the 4th century BCE to the 2nd century BCE, the antiquities department announced on Thursday following the conclusion of this year’s digs conducted by the University of Cyprus. The university’s archaeological team...
University of Cyprus expects 3.9% economic growth in 2018 Business

University of Cyprus expects 3.9% economic growth in 2018

July 24th, 2018 By Stelios Orphanides The University of Cyprus said that the economy is forecast to expand 3.9 per cent this year before growth slows down to 3.3 per cent in 2019, amid a favourable external environment that may change, ongoing turbulence in the banking sector and deteriorating competitiveness. “The main drivers of the outlook in...
UK body offers accounting scholarship at University of Cyprus School news

UK body offers accounting scholarship at University of Cyprus

June 19th, 2018 The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) is offering a scholarship to a student for the academic year 2018-2019 at the University of Cyprus. The scholarship is part of the ICAEW Foundation's 'Changing Futures' scholarship programme and was announced during a meeting of ICAEW vice president Fiona Wilkinson...
UCy students to protest after rainbow flag taken down and trashed Cyprus

UCy students to protest after rainbow flag taken down and trashed

May 19th, 2018 By Evie Andreou The LGBT+ and Friends Students’ Club of the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced on Saturday they were holding a protest on Monday after a group of students of the university took down and trashed the rainbow flag hoisted at the campus on the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia...
University of Cyprus expects economy to grow 3.6% Cyprus

University of Cyprus expects economy to grow 3.6%

January 30th, 2018 The University of Cyprus said its economic growth forecast for this year remained unchanged at 3.6 per cent, after the economy expanded in 3.8 per cent in 2017, the highest growth rate in eight years. Economic activity is expected to expand 3.7 per cent in the first half of the year before slowing down to 3.5 per cent later on, the...
Contract university lecturers strike over working conditions Cyprus

Contract university lecturers strike over working conditions

January 22nd, 2018   Members of the union of adjunct doctoral teaching and research staff (Dede) at the University of Cyprus (UCy) started a 48-hour strike on Monday to demand improvements to their terms of employment. The union, which represents assistant lecturers, research staff and post-doctoral researchers at UCy who are not full members of...
Strike will not affect classes says university Cyprus

Strike will not affect classes says university

January 17th, 2018 The Council of the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced it would ensure planned industrial action next week by a number of academic support staff would not affect any classes. Responding to an announcement last week, by the union representing graduates doing teaching doctorates and research staff (Dede) that its members would stage a...
Adjunct university staff call strike over terms of employment Cyprus

Adjunct university staff call strike over terms of employment

January 12th, 2018 THE union of adjunct doctoral teaching and research staff (Dede) at the University of Cyprus (UCy) announced on Friday its members will go on a 48-hour strike on January 22 to demand improvement in their terms of employment. Dede represents adjunct lecturers and research staff and post-doctoral researchers at the UCy who are not full...
Black gold of the ancients makes a comeback Cyprus

Black gold of the ancients makes a comeback

November 26th, 2017 Black gold was the name Cypriots of the past gave carob trees because their versatile, valuable pods were such an important source of revenue. At one time, there were reportedly more than two million carob trees in Cyprus, and in the 1900s, their pods were among Cyprus’ main exports, used as livestock feed, in sweets and medicines...
New plantation to produce range of carob products Cyprus

New plantation to produce range of carob products

November 22nd, 2017 Six thousand carob trees will be planted on Sunday at Orites, Paphos, the first of 40,000 that will make up the biggest organic carob plantation on the island as part of the University of Cyprus’ Black Gold project. A statement from the university said the land was leased to them by the forestry department and has already been...
Cycle lane from Yeri to university Cyprus

Cycle lane from Yeri to university

November 20th, 2017 A new cyclist lane will be introduced in Nicosia, linking the University of Cyprus (UCy) and Yeri, it was announced on Monday. A memorandum of understanding was signed between the university and Yeri municipality, which will see the lane going from UCy to the centre of Yeri. The first draft plan has already been made and an...
Cypriots upbeat on economy as recovery consolidates Business

Cypriots upbeat on economy as recovery consolidates

October 27th, 2017 The economic sentiment indicator rose by 4.5 units this month, to 119.5, a new high since its introduction in 2001, showing that economic growth is consolidating, the University of Cyprus said. Still, “the volatility of the index may indicate that the economic environment remains uncertain,” the Economic Research Centre (ERC) of...
UCy rector will not stand for president, party ties still too strong (Update) Cyprus

UCy rector will not stand for president, party ties still too strong (Update)

October 11th, 2017 University of Cyprus rector Constantinos Christofides has decided not to stand in the presidential elections next year, he said on Wednesday. In a written statement, Christofides said he had thoroughly thought through the request by many that he stand as a candidate but after talking with a lot of people and weighing the data, he...
UCy officers suspended for role in misappropriating EU funds   Cyprus

UCy officers suspended for role in misappropriating EU funds  

October 9th, 2017 Two senior University of Cyprus (UCy) administrative officers have been suspended after they were charged in connection with misappropriation of funds relating to research programmes in which the institution had either taken part or headed. The pair are among seven suspects charged by prosecutors in connection with the...
Our View: Way Uni rector is chosen is lunatic not democratic Our View

Our View: Way Uni rector is chosen is lunatic not democratic

September 27th, 2017 An association representing students of the University of Cyprus issued an announcement on Monday accusing rector Constantinos Christofides of planning the abolition of democracy at the university. Fepan, which represents all the student groups of UCy, had heard of Christofides’ plans to change the way the rector, vice-rectors and...
Uni rector says not trying to ‘abolish democracy’ Cyprus

Uni rector says not trying to ‘abolish democracy’

September 26th, 2017 University of Cyprus (UCy) rector Constantinos Christofides has hit back at detractors who accuse him of seeking to ‘abolish democracy’ through a proposal changing how the university’s top executives are elected. Christofides has proposed two ways of altering the process to elect the university’s rector and two...
AG gave instruction on further action in Tepak and UCy fraud cases Cyprus

AG gave instruction on further action in Tepak and UCy fraud cases

September 16th, 2017 ATTORNEY-general Costas Clerides said on Friday he has instructed investigators on how to further handle the case of the alleged fraud by EU-funded programmes at the technical university (Tepak) and the Oceanography Centre of the University of Cyprus (UCy). Clerides said that during a meeting on Thursday with the case investigators,...
Tepak fraudsters’ list rises to 14 (Update) Cyprus

Tepak fraudsters’ list rises to 14 (Update)

September 9th, 2017 Tepak fraudsters’ list rises to 14 By Angelos Anastasiou FOURTEEN suspects were remanded on Saturday, four for six days and the rest for eight, in connection with cases of fraud at the Limassol-based technical university (Tepak) and the University of Cyprus, with the prime suspect alleging she will name others also involved in...
Lawyer accuses UCy rector of squandering public funds Cyprus

Lawyer accuses UCy rector of squandering public funds

September 6th, 2017 Akel-affiliated lawyer Argentoula Ioannou, whose dismissal University of Cyprus rector Constantinos Christofides implied had been the real reason behind the party’s recent attacks on him, accused him on Wednesday of having squandered public money on multiple occasions. In an open letter to the rector, Ioannou joined the escalating...
UCy link to Tepak scandal suspects investigated Cyprus

UCy link to Tepak scandal suspects investigated

September 4th, 2017 Some of the suspects embroiled in the €5m state technical university (Tepak) fraud scandal may also be implicated in a separate investigation into research programmes at the University of Cyprus (UCy), police said on Monday. According to deputy police spokesman Stelios Stylianou, 14 separate cases had been investigated and the...
State legal backing for UCy on admissions policy Education

State legal backing for UCy on admissions policy

August 23rd, 2017 The University of Cyprus (UCy) on Tuesday welcomed the fact that the legal services have judged as legitimate the procedures and rules of the university allowing applications from undergraduate-level candidates who have passed international examinations, allowing school leavers from private schools to study at the institution. “The...
University plans maritime institute Cyprus

University plans maritime institute

August 21st, 2017 The rector of the University of Cyprus Constantinos Christofides on Monday briefed transport minister Marios Demetriades on the creation of an institute for maritime science, technology and economy which will be based in Larnaca. The rector told the minister that an international advisory committee has been appointed with the aim of...
BAKER TILLY: standing by the side of excellent students Company News

BAKER TILLY: standing by the side of excellent students

August 20th, 2017 AWARDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT 2016-2017 Mrs. Christina Kassiouli, Human Resources Manager of Baker Tilly in South East Europe, awarded the top graduate students of the School of Economics and Management – University of Cyprus. Graduates, Maria Vryoni and Maria Giapati were awarded with the prizes of 600...
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