Cyprus and France have signed a Memorandum of Understanding within the fields of Instructional, Linguistic and Cultural Cooperation for the interval of 2021 – 2025.
Based on a press launch issued by the Ministry of Training, the signing happened within the context of the official go to of Cypriot Minister of Training, Tradition, Sport and Youth, Prodromos Prodromou, in Paris and his assembly with French Minister of Nationwide Training and Sport Jean Michel Blanquer.
Through the assembly, Prodromou knowledgeable his French counterpart on Cyprus’ current selections in regards to the instructing of French in public colleges, in addition to the return of French because the second obligatory fashionable language within the final two years of Excessive College, as effectively the inclusion of French within the certification of secondary training by the DELF exams.
Prodromou additionally outlined Cyprus’ priorities in training, as mirrored within the Nationwide Restoration and Resilience Plan, in addition to Cyprus’ good practices in training for the surroundings and sustainable progress.
He additionally invited Blanquer to take part within the 9th Ministerial Summit of UNECE which can happen in Cyprus in October 2022.
On his half, the French Minister briefed Prodromou on the priorities of the upcoming French EU Presidency within the area of training.
Inter alia, Blanquer mentioned the French Presidency will place emphasis on the problem of investments in training, the shaping of a framework in regards to the expertise of the educators of the 21st century and the function of youth in coping with local weather change.