[MGSA-L] Raising profile of Cyprus’ universities ‘a priority’
June Samaras
june.samaras at gmail.com
Sun Feb 23 17:28:08 PST 2014
http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/02/22/raising-profile-of-cyprus-universities-a-priority-president-says/
Raising profile of Cyprus’ universities ‘a priority’, president says
Raising profile of Cyprus’ universities ‘a priority’, president says
By Angelos Anastasiou
THE government aims to turn Cyprus into a regional centre for quality
education through legislation attracting foreign post-graduate students,
President Anastasiades said last night.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony for the University of Cyprus’s (UCY)
post-graduate students, the President congratulated the students for their
achievement, and pointed out that 220 post-graduate degrees would be
presented to students from Cyprus, Greece, the USA, Georgia, Iran, India,
Hungary, Nigeria, Russia, Pakistan, Italy, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and
China.
“Limited though the participation of foreign students in UCY programmes may
be, the geographic distribution of graduates across the world reconfirms
the institution’s global esteem,” Anastasiades said.
Raising the profile of Cyprus universities amongst international
prospective students and researchers, aiming at increasing interest from
them in the Cyprus education system, remains a key objective for the
government.
“This administration’s strategy on public universities includes the
creation of an institutional framework that will attract more foreign
post-graduate students, with the goal of turning Cyprus into a regional
centre for quality education.”
According to the President, legislation to allow offering more programmes
in English is being developed by the government.
European Union co-financing contribution to Cyprus educational programmes
and research and development projects has been increased to 95 per cent –
from a previous 50 per cent – for the period from 2014 to 2017,
Anastasiades said.
“Considering that EU funding available for research and development for the
2014-2020 period lies around €70 billion, one realises the potential gains
to be achieved through various funding programmes.”
“If Cyprus was able to absorb €50 million during the recent difficult
period, with EU co-funding at 50 per cent, just imagine how successful the
effort will be when 95 per cent of the cost is co-financed,” he said.
The endeavour to strengthen Cyprus’ prospects of becoming an educational
centre of excellence includes strategic infrastructure projects at UCY,
Anastasiades said, citing the example of the planned further development of
the Nicosia campus, as well as the construction of the Polytechnic School,
poised to start in 2014.
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