#Secondary schools Teacher's union (OELMEK)

Cyprus spends more of its public budget on education than most EU countries, but its pupils continue to record some of Europe’s weakest results. According to European Commission and ...

A request for a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides has been submitted by the three main education unions, Poed, Oelmek, and Oltek, as they seek direct consultation on the status ...

Teachers’ trade union Oelmek on Monday condemned an incident in which it said a parent of a pupil at a high school in Limassol entered the premises and attempted to ...

Cyprus’ main state sector trade unions on Wednesday signed an agreement to create a joint coordinating body, strengthening their collective voice on key labour issues, Pasydy said. The agreement was ...

Parents’ groups on Tuesday strongly criticised a planned teachers’ strike, warning that students are being used as “leverage” for the union’s demands. The Pancyprian confederation of parents’ associations said ...

Oelmek president Demetris Taliadoros said he would not be retracting a remark he made about Education Minister Athena Michaelidou, construed as “sexist”, despite his union’s plea for him to ...

President Nikos Christodoulides avoided any involvement in the ongoing dispute between his government and teaching unions, leaving Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to take the heat, but on Monday, with unions ...

The House education committee has changed the time it will be meeting on Wednesday, following objections by parents’ associations who said a planned work stoppage by teachers over their new ...

The education minister’s proposal for teacher evaluations was thrown out on Thursday by teachers’ union Poed which, along with Oelmek, called on Education Minister Athena Michaelidou to an immediate ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou is scheduled to meet with representatives of the secondary school teaching union Oelmek to discuss the latest evaluation scheme for teachers and educational work on Tuesday. ...

Teachers’ unions Oelmek, Oeltek and Poed will decide next week on a proposal sent to them on Friday by President Nikos Christodoulides over the implementation of an agreement for permanent ...

Teachers’ unions Oelmek, Oeltek and Poed on Monday called for an immediate meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides over the implementation of an agreement for permanent teaching positions. The three unions ...

The ludicrous ‘referendum’, held by the secondary teachers union Oelmek, overwhelmingly rejected the bill that would introduce a new system of evaluation of the work of each teacher. A total ...

An overwhelming majority of 5286 votes, or 91.85 per cent, of members of Oelmek, the secondary school teaching union, voted against the government’s new teacher evaluation plan on Thursday. After the ...

It is “surprising” to hear accusations of no consultation, noting that talks with unions began nine months ago and had led to concrete outcomes, Education Minister Athina Michaelidou said on ...

Teachers’ trade unions are to study the government’s proposal for a new system of evaluating teachers, they said on Saturday. Education Minister Athena Michaelidou had unveiled the proposal on ...

Nobody would have been surprised to hear that the secondary school teachers’ union Oelmek declined the education minister’s invitation to attend talks on the formulation of a new evaluation ...

The alternative schooling pilot programme for children with severe socio-educational challenges will be housed at the environmental information centre in Athalassa national forestry park, according to teachers’ union Oelmek leader ...

The state training institutes (Kie) took umbrage with teachers’ union Oelmek speaking on their behalf on Friday, after the latter listed their under-performance among a litany of complaints launched against ...

The decision to run an alternative education pilot programme for students with severe socio-educational challenges from premises of the Pancyprian Gymnasium became a subject of debate and consternation on Friday. ...

Exams sat by prospective teachers to gain a post in public schools came under scrutiny on Tuesday after dramatic failure rates were recorded for those wishing to teach Greek and ...

Education Minister Athena Michaelidou made it clear she would not tolerate “tactics of the past” on Tuesday as teaching union Oelmek threatened it would take measures. Speaking to state broadcaster ...

Teachers should have the right support from the government to streamline any changes that can improve the education sector, head of the primary school teachers’ union Poed, Myria Vasiliou, said ...

Turkish Cypriot teachers expressed their displeasure after it emerged on Thursday that halloumi had been described as “halloumi cheese” in a school textbook. The offending textbook was the first grade ...