INTERCOLLEGE CYPRUS

SHORT PRESENTATION

Intercollege is the main private provider of tertiary education in Cyprus. Intercollege currently has 51 programmes accredited by the Cypriot Ministry of Education, a number that represents about 40% of all accredited programmes in Cyprus. Accredited degrees are considered equivalent in standard to degrees of international universities (in the UK, USA etc.,) and allow students to apply for a number of prestigious jobs both within the private and public sector. Intercollege plans to become a university in the medium term future, which would make it the first private University in Cyprus.
Today the majority of programmes on offer are academic and only five can be considered vocational. The College is gradually increasing its emphasis on research. Intercollege is international in philosophy, development and outlook and strives to enhance opportunities for education and understanding between people of different cultures. The College aims to promote both high academic standards as well as cultural and social competencies in students.

SPECIFIC TASKS IN "INSULA EUROPAE" PROJECT

• Analysis of the operative record of work and its validation
  
• Participating in the Dissemination Team and identifying national networks for the diffusion and testing of results
  
• Analysis of national teaching systems
  
• Consultations with school or institutional authorities to receive advice
  
• Collaborating with partners to define the "European culture and literature" and "European civic education" curricula
  
• Collaborating to develop online didactic material
  
• National testing of the "modulo exempla" with the participating institutes of the project not benefiting from the Socrates grant (see appendix 2)
  
• Organising "e-learning classrooms" in Cyprus (teacher training)
  
• Tutoring and mentoring online didactic work performed in Cyprus
  
• Monitoring the results of the teaching at national level
  
• Defining a programme to diffuse the syllabuses at a national and European level
  
• Realising the intermediate report on the results of the trials (modulo exempla and online courses for teachers and students)
  
• Collaborating in the drafting of the online newsletters
  
• Host partner of the meeting in Nicosia (1 and 2 September 2006)
  
• Realising the synthesis report of the results of the different phases of the project
  
• Publication and monitoring of the national testing
  
• Correcting drafts of documents translated into English by the partners of the project