Education in Cyprus

Posted on the Cyprus News online website is an article titled, "Constructing Higher Education in Cyprus: the State, society and conflicting 'knowledge traditions'," originally published in the European Journal of Education back in 1997 and written by a certain Cypriot-American whose surname seems vaguely familiar. The three knowledge traditions the author isolates as having an influence on post-secondary education in the island are classical hellenic philology/humanism, English essentialism and North American pragmatism. Their impact has been further complicated by the ongoing conflict between those seeing education furthering cultural goals and those viewing it as ancillary to the economic marketplace. It is, I suppose, a sort of worldview analysis of the ways education functions in the context of a small nation at the fringes of Europe.