POFEN requests an emergency management plan from the Ministries of Health and Transport on the occasion of the start / continuation of Cypriot students studying abroad in pandemic conditions.
"As we understand the second wave of the coronavirus is here, as a result of which it makes the life of students even more difficult, especially for those who study at universities outside Cyprus. "What we need to do is work with the state to prepare an action plan for emergency management," the statement said.
POFEN specifically requests a management plan in a new lockdown situation in countries where there are Cypriot students (England, Greece, Bulgaria, Russia, Czech Republic, etc.) and a response plan when a student falls ill with the disease COVID-19 abroad.
Urgent need to modernize study conditions and improve curricula at AXIK
In another announcement, POFEN emphasizes the need for modernization of study conditions and improvement of study programs at AXIK.
POFEN requests from the competent services of AXIK, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth and all the bodies that influence AXIK to enter into a dialogue in order to solve all the problems that concern the Institute and to set schedules that will aim to upgrade it. AXIK in a four-year program.
Self-funded study programs
POFEN also states that due to the developments in Great Britain, it is very important to proceed with the approval of the self-funded programs of the two public universities of the place, as they will be able to absorb part of the students of private education.
He notes, however, that the Ministry of Education needs to clarify how the law will be changed to legally cover these programs and make it clear that Cypriot students will not have to pay tuition in any Greek-language program. public universities.
Source: KYPE