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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 08-03-16
CONTENTS
[01] PAPACOSTAS - CYPRUS PROBLEM
[02] EDUCATION MINISTER - STATE UNIVERSITIES - ADMISSION STANDARDS
[01] PAPACOSTAS - CYPRUS PROBLEM
Cyprus Defence Minister Costas Papacostas has said that developments
are expected soon on the Cyprus problem, adding that people of Cyprus
must remain united, with a view to achieve its goals through the right
policy and strategy.
Speaking during a memorial service for Christos Tsiartas who was killed
in the 1955-59 EOKA struggle against British colonial rule, Papacostas
recalled that Cyprus President Demetris Christofias is constantly
reiterating the need for unity and noted that a settlement of the
Cyprus problem must guarantee the best future for Cyprus.
Papacostas wished that the Turkish intransigence is lifted, so that
occupation of the island is terminated and Cyprus and its people are
reunited, in conditions of safety and respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms.
[02] EDUCATION MINISTER - STATE UNIVERSITIES - ADMISSION STANDARDS
Minister of Education and Culture Andreas Demetriou has said that the
state Universities of Cyprus plan to introduce new admission standards
for students of minority communities and Cypriot repatriates.
Invited to comment on press information that GCE examinations will be
part of the admission criteria for students, the Minister said that the
two state Universities, the University of Cyprus and the Cyprus
University of Technology decided to expand their admission criteria in
order to give the opportunity to Cypriot repatriates, students of
minorities as well as other candidate students who do not enter the
Universities through the pancyprian examinations, to be admitted to the
state Universities.
He clarified that the number of the aforementioned students categories
would be for the University of Cyprus 10% of the total students number
and for the Cyprus University of Technology 3%.
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