The Parliament of Cyprus in early September debated a Bill to promote English-medium public sector universities on the island, which Education Minister Prodromos Prodromou said would allow Cyprus to, “gradually become an international regional centre for university-level development.”
Until now, most of Cyprus’s English-medium university expansion has been in the private sector, with 30,000 international students on the island, compared to 8,000 in 2012.
The Bill, which Prodromou said he hoped, “is approved as soon as possible,” by Parliament, includes the same level of tuition fees for Cypriot, other EU and non-EU international students. The Cyprus Mail said it would allow students graduating from
Cyprus’s English-medium high schools to progress to a public- sector English-medium university without the need to take a Greek- language national entrance exam.
