Bullying at colleges is an alarming phenomenon in Cyprus but a yr after the legislation on Prevention and Response to Violence in Faculties has not been carried out.
That is what the Home Schooling Committee members realised on Wednesday, based on Philenews.
Particularly, a Nationwide Advisory Committee on problems with intra-school violence that ought to have been arrange by the Ministry of Schooling remains to be pending.
On behalf of the Ministry of Schooling, Athena Michaelidou admitted this however she advised MPs that a number of different actions have been taken. Such because the operation of an Observatory on violence, the Fee on sexual abuse prevention and the Well being and Civic Schooling Committee.
There’s the intention, she clarified, of empowering college students, mother and father and lecturers to report bullying instances. I reality, a platform to be run by training and different specialists is underneath draft and college students – in addition to lecturers – will have the ability to search assist anonymously.