Critical thinking has become the latest educational buzzword, but it needs to be implemented across the board
DESPITE the overwhelming consensus about the importance of critical thinking in educational programmes and curricula, learning in most cases still remains a passive, non-engaging process and experience.
WATER BILLS for Nicosia will increase at ten per cent starting April 1, to cover the Water Board’s cost of buying water from the Water Development Department at an increased tariff.
Since 2001 the Nicosia Board has been refusing to pay the Water Development Department the €0.77 per cubic metre it charges, and has been paying only the €0.57 per cubic metre it charges the public.
POLICE said yesterday they were looking into claims by and 18-year-old man who says he was repeatedly beaten, verbally abused and mocked during police questioning because he was black.
THE COMMERCE Minister is expected to give his final position on the creation of casinos after Easter, he said yesterday.
Minister Antonis Paschalides was yesterday invited to the House Commerce Committee to update deputies on how the situation was progressing.
THERE is potential to fill the gaps between the two sides in the current talks, President Demetris Christofias said yesterday after meeting Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat.
Christofias said yesterday’s meeting, where the leaders continued discussion on EU affairs, was “good without generating feelings of euphoria”.
THE MAYOR of Nicosia Eleni Mavrou yesterday announced plans for the creation of a comprehensive public transport network covering the entire urban area of the capital.
FOLLOWING her failure to get elected as DIKO deputy leader on Sunday, Antigone Papadopoulou yesterday questioned how many new voters who had participated in the elections were real party supporters.
Papadopoulou said she had “seen with her own eyes” voters affiliated with DISY, AKEL and EDEK casting their votes on March 15.
TWO HUNDRED immigrants were rounded up and their residence papers inspected during the early hours of yesterday morning, police said.
The large-scale police operation was carried out in the old part of Nicosia while the majority of immigrants were fast asleep in their beds.
PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat yesterday lent their joint support to a business initiative aimed at bringing the economies of the island closer together.
The project, the brainchild of the Turkish and Greek Cypriot Chambers of Commerce and sponsored by the UNDP, aims at building stronger economic links between the two communities.
A GROUP of UN officers on a cultural tour of occupied Famagusta were ordered out of the occupied areas by Turkish Cypriot military police.
Failure to leave the area immediately would result in their arrest, they were told.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
