Cyprus and Greece to work together on educational reform
By Jacqueline Theodoulou
CYPRUS and Greece plan to work together on the reform of the educational system in both countries, the House Education Committee heard yesterday during its first-ever meeting with its Greek parliamentary counterpart.
The Greek Parliament’s Committee for Educational Affairs visited the island’s House of Representatives and the University of Cyprus (UCY) to discuss educational matters and plans to form a common policy for the reform.
Cypriot Committee Chairman Nicos Tornaritis of DISY said the visit was of great significance. Cyprus and Greece should unite powers in the education sector in order to adequately deal with the great challenges of a European environment. Educational reform is also a political hot potato, at least in Cyprus.
“The end results will be positive for Cyprus as well as Greece,” the Committee Chairman said after the meeting. “This day opens new pathways of communication between the two parliaments and between the two committees,” he added.
Tornaritis confirmed the two committees were planning to discuss controversial plans to update and modernise school history books. He referred to the two committees appointed for the project, one under the President of the Hellenic Foundation of Culture, Georgios Bambiniotis, and the other under Georgios Tsiakalos, a professor for the University of Thessalonica.
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