Education

By Melissa Heckers It may be too early to assess the impact of the pandemic on education, but anyone who has witnessed a child learning online since the closure of ...

Choosing a school can be a decision fraught with worry for a parent. How to choose? What differentiates one school from another? How have graduates faired? How balanced is the ...

Blaming teachers for the spread of the coronavirus is “unacceptable and condemnable”, President of primary school teaching union Poed Myria Vasiliou told the Cyprus News Agency on Sunday. She said ...

By Melissa Heckers, Although prevented from doing so for many years, the island’s state universities are now keen to attract students from private schools who only have A level ...

Online learning, employed on a large scale for the first time due to the coronavirus in Cyprus presented a challenge for teachers, parents and children alike. But it has also ...

Cutting across barriers, eliminating distances and acting as a tool to encourage and promote dialogue, sports is one of the most powerful instruments for bringing people together in today’s ...

The UK’s exit from the European Union has undoubtedly caused major changes in several areas, including that of education and, more specifically, higher education. These changes have created a ...

The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) is contributing to a research project entitled youth new personal & employable skills development (YNSPEED). This aims to facilitate youth development and training in ...

The Cyprus Association of Financial Analysts (CFA Society Cyprus) is a pioneer, organising the prestigious international competition CFA Research Challenge 2021. The CFA research challenge aims to promote academic learning, but ...

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Law, Alternative and Innovative Methods (ICLAIM), an independent non-profit organisation working in close association with the School of Law at the University of Central Lancashire in ...

Tax is a complex issue, so ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and the Institute of Certified Accountants of Cyprus (ICPAC) are ensuring that their future members, studying to ...

With the aim to take actions to reduce the biodiversity loss and to raise public awareness about the Wildlife Vehicle Collision (WVC) phenomenon, the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) coordinated ...

In the latest evaluation results for the highly competitive and prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme announced in February 2021, an unprecedented four proposals in the Individual Fellowships (IF) category ...

The safety and efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines is the subject of an online discussion hosted by the department of pharmacy at Frederick University on February 17. The Sars-CoV-2 virus pandemic is ...

The American University of Cyprus (AUCY) will open its doors in Larnaca in September 2021, and its second campus, in Ayia Napa, still under construction will begin welcoming students in the ...

There are more than 17,000 children whose mother language is not Greek in the state education system, education minister Prodromos Prodromou said on Friday as he unveiled new programmes to boost ...

It is challenging to write an excellent essay. We all hear that the best paper is error-free. But what does that mean? Errors can be in everything. An essay might ...

The University of Nicosia (UNic) is a partner in the Alameda project, alongside 14 other partners from eight different European countries, committed to researching and prototyping the next generation of personalised ...

An interactive application called ‘Explorers of AEEC in Action!’ was recently developed by the Mobile Devices Laboratory (MDL) of Frederick University as a fun tool for exploring the Akrotiri peninsula ...

There is no indication as to when secondary school pupils excluded from Monday’s reopening will be able to return to the classroom, the secondary school teachers’ unions Oelmek and ...

Green recovery measures, including energy upgrades of buildings, enhanced sustainable mobility and modernisation of the electricity grid, improve the quality of life and contribute to the country’s environmental upgrading, ...

Some 60,000 students are returning to government schools on Monday, as the next phase of relaxed measures come into force, Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said in an interview on Sunday. A ...

The Open University of Cyprus (OUC) has been awarded the new Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) for the period 2021-2027, following the successful evaluation (100/100 score) of its relevant application ...

The Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC) of The Cyprus Institute has become part of the recently funded European Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Exascale Computing “Research on AI- ...