Universities call for laws on foreign language courses

The rectors of Cyprus’ two public universities, the University of Cyprus’ Tasos Christofides and the Cyprus University of Technology’s Panayiotis Zaphiris, on Thursday 21 November called for the “immediate passage of legislation” to allow for foreign language bachelor degree courses to be taught at their universities, writes Tom Cleaver for the Cyprus Mail.

In a joint statement, the pair said the matter of legalising such programmes is “passing from delay to delay” and added that in light of the House education committee’s decision to delay discussions on the matter until 12 December, they had been informed that the subject “will be examined in 2025 or in the long term”.

Stating their support of the plan for foreign language courses to be introduced, they rubbished claims that such programmes will “degrade the programmes offered in Greek”.
Full report on the Cyprus Mail site