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Our View: And we wonder why educational standards are declining Opinion

Our View: And we wonder why educational standards are declining

December 23rd, 20184181 ALTHOUGH the University of Cyprus has established a good academic reputation steadily rising in international university rankings, it remains on the fringes of our society. Many had hoped that its academics would take a more active part in public matters, raising the level of public debate, introducing new ideas and ways of doing things...
Over 1,400 students attend University of Cyprus’ open day School news

Over 1,400 students attend University of Cyprus’ open day

December 10th, 20181580 For the fourth consecutive year a three-day open day was organised for prospective students at the University of Cyprus at the end of November. During the three days, 1441 students from 22 schools, 16 lyceums, two private schools and four Gymnasiums, visited from all districts in Cyprus. The students had the opportunity to attend...
President inaugurates new library at University of Cyprus Cyprus

President inaugurates new library at University of Cyprus

December 5th, 20181641 The new library of the University of Cyprus was officially opened on Wednesday. The inauguration, at which President Nicos Anastasiades was present, started with an opening ceremony at 11.30am. Anastasiades then unveiled a commemorative plaque at the entrance of the building. A guided tour of the building for the guests followed, and two...
A ‘hill’ of learning opens at the University of Cyprus Education

A ‘hill’ of learning opens at the University of Cyprus

December 3rd, 20181782 An impressive 470,000 books and 80,000 periodicals have now been moved to the new library of the University of Cyprus, while the new learning resource centre ‘Stelios Ioannou’ opened its doors on Monday at 10am. The official inauguration will be on Wednesday morning, though it will not be the grand opening originally envisaged,...
Panel discussion: growth strategies for Greece and Cyprus School news

Panel discussion: growth strategies for Greece and Cyprus

November 27th, 20181056 The Hellenic Observatory in collaboration with the school of economics and management of the University of Cyprus and with the support of the LSE alumni association of Cyprus, is organising a panel discussion on ‘Development strategies for Greece and Cyprus’. As economies have begun to recover and started growing again after the...
UCY supports fight to stamp out illegal bird-trapping School news

UCY supports fight to stamp out illegal bird-trapping

November 20th, 20181076 A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the University of Cyprus on November 8 with the Terra Cypria Foundation and BirdLife Cyprus. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the rector of the University of Cyprus, Constantinos Christofides, on behalf of BirdLife Cyprus by Menelaos Charalambides and on behalf of Terra Cypria by...
Books moved from old to new library in ‘chain of knowledge’ Education

Books moved from old to new library in ‘chain of knowledge’

November 19th, 20181934 Hundreds of volunteers on Monday formed a five-kilometre human chain passing 600 books along a line from the old University of Cyprus library to mark the opening to students on November 23 of its new location in Nicosia. The first book left the existing site on Kallipoleos Avenue at 3pm and was expected to arrive at the Stelios...
New rector for University of Cyprus Education

New rector for University of Cyprus

October 3rd, 20181625 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, 20181288 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, 20181812 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, 20182117 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, 20181864 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, 20183120 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, 2018219 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, 20181807   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, 20182880 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, 20183776 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, 20177459 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, 20175438 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, 20172298 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, 2017228 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, 20172625 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, 20172347 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, 20172623 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, 20171714 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...
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