The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Culture, Pavlos Mylonas, said that due to many technical difficulties and substantive issues all budgets of public universities, the University of Cyprus, CUT and Open University, will operate with twelfths.
It is worth noting that this was preceded by a meeting with representatives of the University of Cyprus and the Audit Service. After the commitment for the adoption of the supplementary budget of the University of Cyprus, for which there was no objection from the Audit Service, the Vice Rector of International Relations, Finance and Administration of the University of Cyprus, Professor Ioannis Yapintzakis, asked the Committee to discuss and submit the University of Cyprus Budget for 2023 to the Plenary for adoption. Mr. Yapintzakis explained that "if we go to twelfths the University of Cyprus will not be able to implement its contractual obligations" and that there will be huge problems especially with the construction projects that are being implemented.
Mylonas said that there is an issue with the time delay and it should be checked since the University of Cyprus and TEPAK submitted their budgets on time to the Ministries of Education and Finance. "Unfortunately to us they came too late and you understand that the Parliament cannot take the responsibility and within 48 hours to study the budgets, 60 million, study the reports of the Audit Service that support some things and vote. It is impossible," he said.
At the same time, Mylonas said that there was a discussion on the need to modernize the legislative framework that provides for the qualifications of fitness instructors and for the operation of gyms and said that the regulations from the CMO are awaited in the Commission.
AKEL MP Christos Christofides said on the University of Cyprus budget that the Auditor General had come to the Committee on an extraordinary basis, who has assured the Committee that based on the procedures required to pay invoices, particularly for the development projects of the University of Cyprus, there will not be any problem if the budget is adopted at the beginning of March. AKEL's position, Christofides said, was that the budget could and should have gone to the plenary session on Friday.
In addition, Christofides said on the issue of four-month exams that this was a failed institution of exams and that it continues to "all too often" create huge problems for schools, students, their parents and teachers. Also, Mr. Christofides, commenting on the decision of the President of the Republic to refer to the Supreme Court the proposed law on the rights of permanent teachers, said that the President of the Republic, unfortunately, has once again chosen the path of conflict. What we tried to do, he said, was to give permanent teachers the benefits enjoyed by permanent civil servants.
Source: CNA
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