So, let me get this straight.
Teachers don’t want to be evaluated and decide to go on strike.
Now parents have the responsibility to take their children at 11 o’clock?
What kind of sick system is this?
Do they even comprehend the problems parents will face or doesn’t anyone care anymore? Children and their parents have rights too!
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What are they striking for?
Any strike is about creating problems, they don’t work otherwise
My greek is not the best, could someone explain what is this about?
I like how sometimes you hear about american teachers where the pay is shit, the supplies are shit and sometimes even have to buy material for the school from their own pocket
And on the other hand of the spectrum we have cypriot teachers that hold god by the balls…
Cypriot kids are constantly at the bottom of the tables for the academic achievements. The solution of the teachers are to strike and work less hours. It shows where their priorities lie and it’s not in the proper education for the children
I don’t want to be that guy but teachers in Cyprus based on my experience are 90% just awful at their job and 100% good at collecting paycheques.
It’s simple. Evaluate all teachers. Not just the new ones trying to get into the system now. Otherwise it’s unfair. That’s the issue. Those who got in a million years ago don’t care, they get fat salaries and that’s all that matters to them. There are a lot of issues with Cypriot education. Primary school teachers don’t allow specialists to enter primary schools (mathematicians teaching maths etc.) OELMEK doesn’t allow frontistiria teachers to receive experience points so that they get paid better once they get into government. The system is broken and closing schools 2 hours earlier one day is not going to fix it.
Eng:
**Nicosia, Cyprus** – The Ministry of Education, Sports, and Youth has issued instructions for parents and students in light of a planned work stoppage by the secondary school teachers’ union, OELMEK. The stoppage is scheduled for Wednesday, November 19, 2025, from 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
The ministry’s announcement aims to ensure the safety and best possible service for students of public Gymnasiums, Lyceums, and Technical and Vocational Education and Training Schools (TESEK).
The following measures will be in effect:
* It is expected that after the strike concludes, all employees will return to their duties. Parents and guardians will be responsible for transporting their children to their respective schools at 11:00 a.m.
* For students who use buses to return home from school, the scheduled routes will run as normal at 1:35 p.m.
* Absences will be recorded but not counted for students who do not attend school for the entire day. This includes students of All-Day Schools of Special Interest in Secondary Education.
Same as in every public education system. But if you suggested to people that education should finally be privatized so it can be freed from the corruption, incompetence and agenda of government, people will go to the streets in uproar. Because they are brainwashed socialists.
So let the public suffer for its stupidity. Well deserved
Egamisan mas i sintexnies. O karkinos toutou tou topou
Could someone explain me as a foreigner?
Based on the news article, the teachers don’t like the new evaluation system, because it will increase the bureaucracy and use most of the money to “inspectors”.
Most of the teachers in Russia, where I am from, are hating the amount of bureaucracy and they are saying that the spend more time on it than on teaching
So, are teachers here well payed? Is the new system really so bad? And why they decided to change it
Thanks in advance
Cyprus teachers are one of the most useless (if not the most useless) sections of govt employees. And there’s a lot of competition. So it’s quite hard to actually be that useless.
The vast majority are there due to being in a waiting list with 0 qualifications for long enough. Most have no actual education qualifications. And basically all of them have done no further education or training regarding education.
Basically they should just burn the entire education department and teaching system down and start from 0 because it cannot possibly be any worse.
The fact that they consistently resist any kind of evaluation for the last 40 years says a lot.