Education

Cabinet on Wednesday approved the education ministry’s proposed amendments for the student evaluation system for lyceum and technical education, which will be sent to the House shortly, Education Minister ...

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 ...

The Open University of Cyprus has been hacked and its services down for over 24 hours, it announced on Tuesday. Its online teaching platform, web portal and application system were out ...

Primary school students and schools have been rewarded for their innovation and teamwork after creating eco-friendly products. Eurobank Cyprus organised a special event to reward primary school students and their ...

Local students created Enmeal, an innovative application promoting healthy eating with personalised meal plans and recipes aiming to improve quality of life. Heritage private school students created the application in ...

MPs will discuss the proposal for the abolition of the twice-yearly exams next week, a move that satisfied the demands of teachers, parents and students who resisted the new evaluation ...

Students sitting exams at the end of the school year will be questioned on 60 per cent of the material taught in public schools, a new education ministry proposal released on ...

Students and parents across Livadia’s primary and secondary schools will hold a one-hour walkout on Monday morning to protest what they say is chronic overcrowding. “Overcrowding in our schools ...

A local university participates in an Erasmus + funded project aiming to promote inclusivity and integrate accessibility in higher education. The Assistive Technology, Disability and Inclusive Education Research Unit of the ...

Limassol high school students received distinctions at the 12th International Culinary Competition of Southern Europe. According to the 3rd Technical and Vocational School of Education and Training in Limassol, five ...

The role of the Cypriot dialect in arts and culture was the focus of a recent event at the Limassol-based Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak). Speakers highlighted the role of ...

Secondary teacher union Oelmek and the secondary parents’ association on Monday repeated their request for twice-yearly examinations to be scrapped, in a letter addressed to the Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, ...

Students from the Kinneret College of Israel visited a Limassol-based college to exchange views on historical and cultural issues. The group of Israeli students visited the premises of CTL Eurocollege ...

Quality and equity in early childhood education and care will be the focus of an upcoming English-language European conference in Limassol. The conference is organised by the Cyprus committee of ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday conceded that changes must be made to the twice-yearly exam programme as it has failed in achieving its stated goals. “The twice-yearly exam programme was ...

Ten per cent of children present signs of learning difficulties in reading By Angela Charalambous Reading is not a natural skill to acquire, it needs to be explicitly taught. Children ...

Ten teenagers from Limassol are striving to revolutionise the desiccant industry by offering a new environmentally friendly alternative to the harmful silica gel packets used to absorb moisture. HuskMusk, a ...

Teaching unions Oelmek and Oltek said on Saturday that they expect Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to meet with them and find a solution to twice-yearly exams, which have been heavily ...

Over 100 teachers cultivated skills such as empathy using virtual reality technologies during trainings across the island as part of a European Erasmus+ project. In the context of the European project ...

A research team of the department of nursing of the Cyprus university of technology (Tepak) is among the ten teams selected for participation in the Cyprus Seeds programme. The team ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday attended a memorial service for Eoka fighter Grigoris Afxentiou at the imprisoned graves. “His sacrifice is an example of self-sacrifice and tremendous love towards ...

The House education committee on Wednesday discussed Tepak’s budget as the state university said it is eager to expand to more cities. Tepak rector Panayiotis Zafiris argued that there ...

A teacher has been fined €850 by the Limassol district court, for causing actual bodily harm to a 10-year-old pupil she attacked during class in 2018, it emerged on Wednesday. According to ...

Two teachers have been struck from the private school teacher register, and a school has been sanctioned over the leak of an exam question in January, the education ministry said ...