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[GreekIslandGirl]

Hello we have better GCSE results than the south.....

Congratulations! And this thread is about WHY you have "better" results. It's all fixed.

[Demonax]

Do you have any universities in the south?

Idiot. We have accredited internationally recognised universities in Cyprus. Unlike the dodgy illegal unaccredited 'universities' in the occupied areas which offer low-quality, cheap unrecognised degrees to gullible third-world students.

[Demonax]

Hello we have better GCSE results than the south.....we have very good private schools far better than those in the south, just compare our graduating students which achieve far better university places in Turkey USA and UK than those in the south who are sent into the army to have further brain washing before they have a chance to form their own opinions in the real world outside of the south. Do you have any universities in the south?

What a load of bollocks! Please provide evidence. Not fantasies.

Here is evidence: According to Eurostat the Republic of Cyprus has the second highest percentage of population with tertiary education qualifications in the EU. Higher than Luxembourg, Britain, Germany and France:

http://www.universityworldnews.com/arti ... 2132724421

[Flying Horse]

Hello we have better GCSE results than the south.....we have very good private schools far better than those in the south, just compare our graduating students which achieve far better university places in Turkey USA and UK than those in the south who are sent into the army to have further brain washing before they have a chance to form their own opinions in the real world outside of the south. Do you have any universities in the south?

Results by bribery or bought on the internet?

Those in the UK pay massive fees to study at Uni, but they achieve their results by real hard studying, not by bribing their tutors for the grades they want!

[B25]

Hello we have better GCSE results than the south.....we have very good private schools far better than those in the south, just compare our graduating students which achieve far better university places in Turkey USA and UK than those in the south who are sent into the army to have further brain washing before they have a chance to form their own opinions in the real world outside of the south. Do you have any universities in the south?

Results by bribery or bought on the internet?

Those in the UK pay massive fees to study at Uni, but they achieve their results by real hard studying, not by bribing their tutors for the grades they want!

Actually VP is suggesting sleeping with the tutors, in fact (s)he is going by her own standards!

[Eric Betend]

@DrCyprus, Getreal and a few others

Your emails give off a strong smell of frustration, hubris, narrow-mindedness, petty thinking and racism.
As a consequence, instead of trying to gauge your beliefs to the tangible facts of reality, you desperately want to see reality as a reflection of your beliefs.
As small-time historians, you stick to a few basic pieces of knowledge and you keep bringing them up as a demonstration thinking they encompass the whole reality.
You like to play the role of gurus on this forum, supported by a handful of followers who have completely lost their free will and critical thinking.

Fortunately, the world is much broader than your frustrated personalities.

[Eric Betend]

For those who can be interested, another part of my document on GAU, entitled “Values”.

Values

I would like now to narrate one personal story in order to give an example of the kind of values advocated by GAU.
As we were learning countries and nationalities with some classes, I displayed the flags of my students in my classroom. One student told me he was from Iraq. I looked for the Iraqi flag but he said he could not recognize it. I searched with him for his flag, and he recognized the Kurdish flag. He was from the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq that boarders Turkey, sometimes referred to as Kurdistan. I therefore added the official and internationally recognized Kurdish flag without knowing it was forbidden to do so in Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Some parents, instead of coming to talking to me about it, which would have immediately settled the case, called the management to complain. I was asked to remove the Kurdish flag.
However, Kurdistan is a country recognized by the international community and the Iraqi constitution, and its flag is the flag of my student. Moreover, as this was happening, Turkey had chosen to support the Iraqi former Sunnite vice-president Tarek Al-Hachemi, sued by the Iraqi justice, and to develop cooperation with the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, especially in the energetic field.
The school management - and probably even the local police itself - was unaware of that and/or unwilling to know about it.
Following the parents’ complaints, the school top management asked to see me. They asked me to tell them the precise story of that flag in my classroom, orally and by email. I sent the following email :

-----Original Message-----
> From: "Betend Eric" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
> Date: 05-04-2013 11:56
> Subject: About the Kurdish flag
>
> Good morning,
> Following our discussion, I am sending the following statement :
> As we are doing countries in class, I have put all GAU Prep school students' flags in my classroom.
> A student told me that he was Iraqi though he could not recognise his flag. I found out he was Kurdish and consequently added the Kurdish flag on the wall, which made him happy. I told all classes that the Kurdish flag exists even if there is no existing current Kurdish country as such, that there used to be one, that the Kurds are spread over 4 different countries, etc., etc.
> That is history.
> I will remove the flag as I have been told to.
> Regards.
> Eric BETEND

They wanted me to remove the flag from the wall, all the more so because the angry parents had called the police as well and the police was supposedly about to come to school to make a fuss about it.
I did not remove the flag immediately since I wanted to do it in front of the student whose parents had complained (my manager told me who complained). Not ready to wait and scared the police would come to the school, my manager came to my class to remove the flag herself. I thought that would be the end of the story, but a while later, she said to me this time they wanted me to let them know which student called himself a Kurd. They said the police wanted to know and that this information was requested as part of the Turkish fight against Kurdish terrorism!
This was going too far and I refused to tell the name of the students. The management first let me go but after two days added pressure on me and insisted I tell the name of the student: they told me the police may come and arrest me. I still refused to do so and never heard anything else about that in the future. However, I got in touch with the students family through their classroom teacher and made sure the family did not get any trouble (the police wanted to question all Kurdish families from GAU, but I do not know if they did it or not).
To summarize, GAU management supported:
- the cowardice of a couple of parents who complained to my management and the police instead of talking to me.
- the police silliness
- denunciation of a student guilty of nothing
In addition, they blamed my ignorance about the prohibition of the Kurdish flag, which - blaming ignorance - is a shame for a school.
They turned a student’s sincerity added to my ignorance into a “terrorist” affair, and put “denunciation” at the peak of their value.

[Eric Betend]

@DrCyprus, Getreal and a few others

I was meaning (the smell of your) "posts", not "emails".

[B25]

Eric, there is no loyalty amongst thieves.

You shacked up with a bunch of crooks and now you are complaining that they were not fair. Must be the joke of the century You have no credibility, but keep writing I am being entertained by your bent behaviour and that of the other crooks.

Please do spread this to other forums, in fact I sometime wish this forum has a like and share button so we could do it for you.

Can't wait until the next episode.

P.S. perhaps BillC can post it to the various Cyprus FB groups, would make a fantastic read. Seriously.

[Demonax]

@DrCyprus, Getreal and a few others

Your emails give off a strong smell of frustration, hubris, narrow-mindedness, petty thinking and racism.
As a consequence, instead of trying to gauge your beliefs to the tangible facts of reality, you desperately want to see reality as a reflection of your beliefs.
As small-time historians, you stick to a few basic pieces of knowledge and you keep bringing them up as a demonstration thinking they encompass the whole reality.
You like to play the role of gurus on this forum, supported by a handful of followers who have completely lost their free will and critical thinking.

Fortunately, the world is much broader than your frustrated personalities.

Actually, Monsieur Betend this is a pretty accurate description of your posts. You have made nine posts and managed to patronise, offend, misinform, rant, abuse and assume a knowledge you clearly lack. What kind of teacher are you? I know the French are often caricatured for their arrogance but you have taken condescension to a new level of absurdity.

It perhaps explains why of all places on the planet you ended up teaching at an illegal institution in an illegal state. And now you come on here to proclaim your disappointment that the pathetic 'Girne American University" falls below your high ideals!

What did you expect for heaven's sake? Did you think you were teaching at a normal school in a normal place? If you'd bothered to learn anything you'd know you were 'teaching' at a fake school in a fake state founded on plunder and ethnic cleansing. Do you know why the 'trnc' is embargoed and its educational institutions unaccredited?

I have no objection to your exposing the ridiculous institution you found yourself teaching in. In fact, I welcome it and encourage you to share your experiences further! But please show a little more humility. After all, it is you who has been had!