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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 ...

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 ...

Applications for subsidised student accommodation within Nicosia’s walled city are now open, the interior ministry announced on Thursday. The project allows for financial assistance to property owners or tenants ...

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) ...

Turkish Cypriot authorities will carry out a full “academic audit” regarding the scandal of fake diplomas which has erupted in the north in recent days. Speaking at a press conference ...

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 ...

University after university accused of issuing fake degrees, misconduct and embezzlement A new fake diplomas and fraud scandal at a university in the northern part of Cyprus has reignited the ...

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’ ...

A university in the north on Tuesday announced that “senior figures” in its administration have been embezzling money from its funds. The Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) in ...

Half of the official population of northern Nicosia are university students, Turkish Cypriot Nicosia Mayor Mehmet Harmanci said on Tuesday. Harmanci was speaking at the “100th Anniversary Ankara Urban Development ...

The north’s universities are facing crises ahead of the start of the new academic year in October, with financial and administrative issues plaguing its largest academic institutions. The Eastern ...

A fire broke out in a Nicosia private university’s basement stairwell, necessitating the need of three engines to deal with the blaze, the fire service said on Thursday. In ...

The government will soon introduce measures to deal with housing issues faced by students at Cypriot universities, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Wednesday, as a debate on the housing ...

Transforming Cyprus into a regional centre of tertiary education was the aim of a meeting held on Wednesday between four ministers and the president at the palace. Following the meeting, ...

Larnaca municipality has hailed the interest of two top medical schools – from the UK and Lebanon – in establishing a medical university there, but the district warned that it needs land ...

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 ...

A new university department for marine science is on the cards for Larnaca, the city’s mayor Andreas Vyras said on Tuesday after a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides. “This ...

How the University of Cyprus’ finances reportedly hit a €26.8 million deficit, a figure the rector did not confirm or deny amid calls for his resignation, came in for intense speculation ...

Efforts are underway to change the legislation surrounding tertiary level education in Cyprus, which dates back to 1996 and no longer represents today’s world, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said on ...

Cyprus is one of only two EU states still without a university hospital Expectations that the start of 2023 would finally see the long-awaited creation of university hospitals in Cyprus were ...

The island’s university rectors on Tuesday called for a push forward of legislative regulation that will allow courses at public universities in Cyprus to be taught in languages other ...

The education ministry announced on Saturday it will proceed with “reasonable adjustments” to the university entrance exams for students with disabilities. The decision was announced a day after the ministry ...

There will be repercussions for Cyprus universities that maintain collaborations with universities in Ukraine with the situation certainly taking some time to return to normal, Rector of the Cyprus University ...

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 ...