In statements after the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Culture, AKEL MP Christos Christofides said that tomorrow students, parents and teachers will march outside the Presidential Palace "in what I would call a last-ditch effort to find a solution to the huge problem created by the four-month exams".
As he said, these exams have already victimized thousands of senior students, with the risk of depriving them of access to European universities.
"At the same time, they have victimized and created huge psychological and other problems for all secondary education students. Now the rulers want to extend this institution of universal examinations to primary education, starting, if possible, from the first grade of primary school."
Mr. Christofides said that AKEL is appealing to the government and the Ministry of Education, even at the last minute, to have second thoughts, "to understand the pedagogical crime that has been committed against thousands of students and their parents and to provide a solution to this huge issue."
"As AKEL, we have prepared a proposal for a law to abolish the four-year examinations. However, this law proposal must be tabled if it obtains a majority of the political forces in Parliament, otherwise it will be interpreted by the government as a vote of confidence in the four-month exams. I would also like to publicly call on the other political forces, especially the opposition forces, to join with us to provide a solution or at least put that effective pressure on the government to force it to provide a solution," he added.
Finally, he said that next Wednesday, the issue will be discussed next Wednesday in the Education Committee of the House of Representatives, hopefully in the presence of the Minister of Education, because it is a huge issue, it has created tremendous disruption to students, parents and schools and a solution must be found.
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