We’re very optimistic that we will implement the three-year plan for putting in air conditioners in colleges, mentioned the Minister of Schooling, Sports activities and Youth, Athina Michailidou, noting that particular directions got to cope with the warmth throughout tomorrow's Pan-Cypriot exams.
In statements in Limassol, the Ministry of International Affairs mentioned that “particularly for Pan-Cypriot girls, we should always say that, yearly, as a result of that is the interval when the exams are held, a provision is made to make the most of rooms which have air con or, the place they don’t, with followers or to make preparations throughout the faculty”.
“The warning now we have from our companions, the Meteorological and Medical Providers of the Ministry of Well being, issues tomorrow and particularly for tomorrow now we have given directions to the colleges, in fact to utilize the rooms which have air con, to make it simpler for the youngsters”, he continued he added that “the place there are none, provision needs to be made for the home windows in addition to for all of the measures now we have been taking all these years”.
On the identical time Ms. Michailidou underlined that the essential factor is that “this 12 months, lastly, it was accepted that air conditioners needs to be put in in all colleges, with out discrimination, except for colleges within the countryside in fact or the colleges wherein we’re upgrading the thermal consolation”.
The warmth, he continued, pressured the Ministry to take the choice for tomorrow's closure of Major Schooling colleges, but in addition “to not all Secondary Schooling youngsters, who work from 7:30 within the morning till 1:30 p.m., so so as to facilitate the state of affairs”.
Nonetheless, these will not be options, the Minister of Schooling underlined and famous that, in relation to the lecturers, “they aren’t leaving underneath any circumstances” and that “they may keep, they may work there, they may use their time as finest they will”. “The circumstances are additionally dangerous for lecturers, all of us acknowledge that,” he added.
Emphasizing that, for the primary time, there’s a three-year plan for the set up of air conditioners, the Ministry of the Inside acknowledged that “this plan has been accomplished in its first section and the Faculty Ephorates are already engaged on beginning the set up as quickly as the youngsters go away, so in about ten days, in accordance with the specs”.
“We now have taken a collection of actions and that is essential to say. We now have discovered the sources, now we have chosen the colleges, now we have ready guides, as a result of all that is associated to the protection of the buildings and the protection of the youngsters”, he added.
He indicated that in a number of colleges that, with the assistance of fogeys, put in air conditioners, with out preliminary work, there are issues with electrical hundreds.
We’re working, he continued, systematically in order that the set up can start and he famous that air conditioners can’t be launched from one second to the subsequent, as talked about by some slogans that sound “right here and now, all over the place air conditioners”.
“We're doing one thing very fastidiously, seeing any issues and shifting ahead with a three-year plan,” he mentioned, and wished that timeline could possibly be sped up.
In line with the plan, which is predicated on standards, the Ministry of the Inside mentioned, the set up of air conditioners will begin from Nicosia and Limassol, that are the very best temperatures, “and we are going to proceed accordingly”.
“We’re very optimistic that we will implement our plan and we could have bulletins when needed”, he added, whereas when requested whether or not this plan could possibly be carried out earlier, he indicated that this might rely upon many components.
I would really like, he continued, to cross this primary section, which can be a pilot, very fastidiously, to see the ten colleges per province, to see how we proceed with the procedures, as a result of it’s the Basic Accounting Workplace that has moved ahead to get the job completed correctly, let's see the businesses which were “.
He mentioned, lastly, that the colleges within the mountains will not be a direct precedence for the set up of air conditioners, nevertheless the difficulty could possibly be thought of at a later stage.
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