If private education is to improve, parents need to become more demanding
HAVE you ever been frustrated by a lack of response from your children’s school? Has it made you wonder about your role in your child’s education and your rights as a consumer? With three children in private education in Nicosia, the question of parental rights in schools is never far from my mind.
MEHMET Ali Talat’s election as Turkish Cypriot leader yesterday raised hopes for fresh attempts to reunify the island, but the Greek Cypriot leadership kept the world guessing whether they would play ball.
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I compliment you on your Educationmatters feature and, specifically, on the column Choosing a foreign university by Dr. Jim Leonitiades, which appeared on 5 April, 2005. One small point: Dr. Leonitiades wisely advised students to attend student fairs, but he suggests that some of the best schools are not represented, or only marginally represented, at such fairs.
PRESIDENT Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday called on the EU to take a more active role in efforts to solve the Cyprus problem, arguing that the bloc needed to make clear that certain provisions of the Annan plan were not compatible with EU norms and regulations.
THE government insists on deporting a Serbian family who were legally resident in Cyprus for 10 years, despite an Ombudsman’s report recommending it reverse the decision and a two-and-a-half year old EU Directive codifying the rights of long-term residents in member states.
CYPRIOT EU Health and Consumer Affairs Commissioner Markos Kyprianou has chosen disgraced former Health Minister Dina Akkelidou as his personal advisor.
Akkelidou was forced to resign last year after she was convicted of interfering in the course of justice after appealing directly to a judge pleading leniency for a drug suspect.
THE Green Party has intervened in an effort to stop the demolition of graves at the old Armenian Cemetery near the Ledra Palace Hotel.
Party leader, George Perdikes, described the cemetery as “a sacred place that should be preserved and maintained. We call on the government to solve the problem.”
THE MINISTRY of the Interior yesterday refused to recognise the appointment of Ilias Ioannou Papa as mukhtar of Kormakitis village in the occupied areas.
THE wife of a murdered man arranged his meeting with his killers and was also involved in the plotting of the plan, the Nicosia Assizes Court heard yesterday.
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