Authorities have taken strict measures to contain the spread of swine flu including slaughtering 250,000 pigs in a step that drew heavy criticism and delaying school and university entrance dates by a few weeks.
The results in subjects studied for certificates are used to calculate a student's university entrance score, which is called the Tertiary Entrance Rank.
The IB PYP is an excellent preparation for the IB Middle Years Programme (ages 11-16) leading up to the IB Diploma Programme (ages 16-19); a comprehensive pre-university course recognised around the world as a premier university entrance qualification.
During the 14th Conference Education Ministers of the CIS countries will review a draft action plan for further education development and cooperation in education between CIS countries in 2008-2010, university entrance examinations, multi-level higher education system in CIS countries, education standards and other issues.
Instead of worrying about University entrance requirements, they should worry about why every Cypriot parent that can afford it sends their children to private schools, why state school pupils need to spend their afternoons in private lessons in order to keep up with the curriculum, why failure rates in Greek among lyceum students were so shockingly high last year, suggesting schools are not even able to teach basic literacy.
This obsession with not branding children as failures ignores the fact that A-levels are a university entrance exam and not everyone can get into their chosen university.
A residential visit to a university is part of the induction programme and there has been a decision to move to a vocational and applied learning sixth form, offering a wide range of applied GCEs and BTEC courses which gain points for university entrance as well as preparing students for employment.
