#education

Democracy must not only be taught in classrooms but also lived in everyday practice, Citizens’ rights commissioner Panayiotis Palates said on Tuesday presenting a study on democratic education. Pupils, teachers, ...

About 21,000 children up to the age of four will have their preschool fees and lunches paid by the state for the 2025–2026 school year, the finance ministry announced on Monday. The ...

President Nikos Christodoulides visited the Paralimni gymnasium on Monday for “national reasons” and announced upgrades to the school worth €5.5 million as well as a new sports school in the region ...

Friday marked the start of the 2025-2026 school year for senior school students in Cyprus, and the education ministry pledged the education system would undergo significant changes. The reforms are ...

The government has approved the programmes of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, making it the first Greek university branch to operate in Cyprus. “This marks the foundation of ...

School supplies have been donated to Greek Cypriot and Maronite children who attend schools in the north, the Pancyprian volunteerism coordinating council said on Friday. It said the supplies had ...

Parents preparing their children for the new school year are being urged to plan ahead, shop around and compare prices, after a survey by the Cyprus Consumers Association revealed striking ...

Public schools are changing “to give every child the strength to move forward,” Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on Tuesday as she announced a series of reforms coinciding with the ...

The education ministry envisions an experiential and creative school in which students actively participate and grow into members of society with morals and dignity, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou said on ...

The need for a general upgrade of the schooling system in Cyprus was outlined by Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Monday. The results from the Pancyprian exams, sat by school ...

Now in its third year, a summer school run by Hope for Children CRC Policy Centre is helping children develop leadership, communication, and organisational skills while broadening their knowledge of ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday visited the new facilities of the Apostolos Loukas special school in Limassol to address ongoing concerns raised by staff and parents. Her visit coincided ...

Parents and children’s guardians are now liable to monetary fines if the children are absent from nursery school without notification, under a law passed by parliament on Thursday. If ...

In the end, the education ministry surrendered to the teaching unions over the evaluation system, the bill for which it had submitted to the House for approval. As expected, the ...

The new technical gymnasium will open its doors in September, “signalling a new era for education in Cyprus” and providing “real opportunities” to students, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday said the ministry was open to discussing the “minor” issues raised by teachers regarding the ministry’s proposal for a sweeping reform of teacher ...

Concerns have been raised about the handling of medical emergencies in schools after a student at Ayios Neophytos Lyceum in Paphos reportedly suffered a hypoglycaemic episode during an exam and ...

The government announced on Tuesday a sweeping reform of the teacher evaluation system, marking the most significant change to public education in decades. Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis outlined the details ...

The cabinet has approved “fundamentally important” teacher evaluation reform, which will be implemented over the course of five years, Education Minister Athena Michaelidou announced on Tuesday “with particular satisfaction”. The ...

Senior academics warned on Thursday that continued legislative delays are stopping them from launching English-language degree programmes, while foreign institutions are moving ahead with ease. Meanwhile, branches of foreign universities, ...

Cyprus’ higher education institutions have announced the creation of a joint framework to promote diversity, equality, and inclusion, marking an unprecedented level of collaboration in the country’s academic sector. ...

Cyprus and Greece are deepening cooperation in the field of education, focusing on the transition from rote learning to skills-based instruction, the exchange of educational materials, and the organisation of ...

Teachers walked out of every public school in the north on Wednesday as protests continue against the ruling coalition’s handling of education in light of a retracted attempt to ...

The principal of a high school in the north was hospitalised after fainting during a tense dispute over a female student wearing a hijab who was denied entry to the ...