{"id":16094,"date":"2012-02-11T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16094"},"modified":"2012-02-11T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T14:12:07","slug":"university-of-central-lancashire-cyprus-uclan-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/11\/university-of-central-lancashire-cyprus-uclan-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, (UCLan Cyprus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beta.cyprus-mail.com\/cyprus\/pyla-university-open-october\/20120211\">Cyprus Mail<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CONSTRUCTION of a modern \u20ac53 million campus has begun in Pyla to accommodate the first British university on the island, University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, (UCLan Cyprus).<\/p>\n<p>UCLan Cyprus will open in October this year and students will have the option of studying their programme entirely in Cyprus or transferring for part of their studies to the UK. They expect to have 5,000 students initially. All courses will be taught in English.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are some interesting news. \u00a0Of course, we have quite a few universities here in Cyprus, but most of them, with the exception of maybe University of Cyprus, were speed-track-converted from a bunch of colleges. \u00a0It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how different a &#8220;real&#8221; university is going to be, and if it will create any worthy competition to push the educational institutions a bit. \u00a0The level of local schools wasn&#8217;t all that high back when I was a student, and judging by the younger candidates that I interviewed for jobs in the last few years, the situation isn&#8217;t getting any better. \u00a0Hopefully, the UCLan Cyprus arrival can change this.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Cyprus Mail reports: CONSTRUCTION of a modern \u20ac53 million campus has begun in Pyla to accommodate the first British university on the island, University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, (UCLan Cyprus). UCLan Cyprus will open in October this year and students will have the option of studying their programme entirely in Cyprus or transferring for part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/11\/university-of-central-lancashire-cyprus-uclan-cyprus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, (UCLan Cyprus)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,2391],"tags":[1114,2975],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-larnaca","tag-education","tag-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16518,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/19\/bill-clinton-in-cyprus\/","url_meta":{"origin":16094,"position":0},"title":"Bill Clinton in Cyprus","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The former president of the USA, Bill Clinton is visiting Cyprus. \u00a0Cyprus Mail reports that he will be giving a lecture on the economic crisis: FORMER president of the United States Bill Clinton will give a lecture on the economic crisis, at European University Cyprus on Saturday. 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