English Language Foundation Accredited Programmes

The Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth has prepared guidelines for the English Language Foundation Course, which is open to third-party country students based on a decision of the Council of Ministers dated 19 July 2023. Institutions of higher education wishing to operate the English Language Foundation Course on the basis of the above mentioned guidelines, prepare and submit for evaluation, to the CYQAA, the relevant Foundation Course, which is evaluated by the CYQAA.

The table below lists the English Language Foundation Courses which have been accredited by CYQAA.

1. English Language Foundation Programmes evaluated/accredited by the Agency

Institution TypeInst/tionProgramme of StudyRef. NumberDate of Appl/tionCYQAA SummitCom/ment of Accr/tionAccr/tion ExpiresCommentsExternal Ev/tion ReportInst/tion CmntsCYQAA ReportsCourse Distr/tion
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationAlexander College (Larnaca)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00316-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationAmerican CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationAtlantis College (Ammochostos)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationC.D.A. College (Larnaca)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00102-11-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationC.D.A. College (Lemesos)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00102-11-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationC.D.A. College (Nicosia)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00102-11-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationC.D.A. College (Pafos)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00102-11-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationCasa CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationCBS – College of Business StudiesEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationCity Unity College NicosiaEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationCollege of Tourism and Hotel ManagementEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationCTL EuroCollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationGlobal CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationInterNapa CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationKES CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationLarnaca College (Larnaca)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00420-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationLedra CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationMesoyios CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationThe Philips CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00227-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
2. Private UniversityUniversity of Central Lancashire Cyprus (UCLan - Cyprus)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00928-02-2024S107-20 May 2024Spring Semester 2024-2025Fall Semester 2029
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationThe Limassol CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00516-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationFreshArt CollegeEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00516-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
2. Private UniversityUniversity of LimassolEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00616-10-2023S101-28 December 2023Spring Semester 2023-2024Fall Semester 2028
2. Private UniversityEuropean University CyprusEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.00828-02-2024S108-17 June 2024Fall Semester 2024-2025Spring Semester 2029
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Droso Lavithi

Droso Lavithi is an Education Officer at CYQAA, managing HEIs' applications for programmatic, departmental, and institutional evaluations.

She graduated with an athletic scholarship under the Workforce Education Department of Southern Illinois University in the USA, with a specialization in Home Economics Education. She also holds a Master Degree in Nutrition and Public Health from the Harokopio University in Athens.

She worked for 21 years as a Health Education (Home Economics) teacher in the Secondary Education of Cyprus.

Internal Market Information System (“IMI”)

CYQAA is the authorized National IMI System Coordinator. According to Directive 2005/36/ EC as amended by Directive 2013/55/ EU [article 21 (a) (3)], each Member State must notify the European Commission of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions it lays down for the award of academic qualifications covered by the automated system recognition ((Medical Doctor, Dentist, Nurse, Midwife, Veterinarian, Pharmacist, Architect). Notifications should be submitted in a timely manner to ensure that graduates of Higher Education Institutions benefit from the provisions of the Directive.

imi

What is IMI?
The Internal Market Information system (IMI) is an IT application that connects authorities across the European Union (EEA). IMI allows authorities to communicate quickly and easily with their counterparts in other Member States.  

Main Features

  • IMI is a multilingual system available in all official languages.
  • IMI has a multilingual search function aiming to help authorities find their counterparts in other EEA countries.
  • Pre-translated questions, answers and forms for requesting and sharing information are provided, in the context of administrative cooperation supporting the Single Market.
  • There is an integrated machine translation service for translating any free text included as part of an information exchange.
  • It is easily adaptable to new policy areas.
  • A tracking mechanism allowing authorities to follow the progress of their information exchanges.

IMI and the Single Market

EU laws set out mutual assistance and administration cooperation obligations for Member States in order to make the free movement of people, business, goods and services a reality. IMI helps authorities across European Economic Area to fulfill their obligations in multiple policy areas. It has succeeded in modernizing cross-border administrative cooperation and improving the functioning of the Single Market. Although the end users of IMI are mainly public authorities at national, regional and local level, the beneficiaries of this improved cooperation are businesses and persons who are the subject of the information exchanges (“data subjects”).

Advantages of the IMI system

  • Easy to determine relevant competent authority.
  • Easy to exchange information using pre-translated sets of questions and answers.
  • Easy to track the status of information request.
  • No development cost for expansion to new areas where authorities need to cooperate.
  • Well-established support service.
  • Legal certainty - based on an EU legal act.

Data Protection compliant IT tool

  • Clear data protection provisions in the IMI Regulation.
  • Monitored by the European Data Protection Supervisor.
  • Strict access control to exchanged content.
  • Access to the system and to data on a need-to-know basis.
  • Member States control who has access to IMI.

Important information

  • More than 485000 information exchanges have been sent through IMI since is launch in 2008.
  • The use of the system increases year by year.
  • In 2022, IMI supported 95 cross-border procedures in 19 different legal areas (directives or regulations).
  • As of January 2022, IMI supports 4 new procedures in the areas of:
  • Από τον Ιανουάριο του 2022 το ΙΜΙ υποστηρίζει 4 νέους τομείς που αφορούν:
    1. Enforcement of the posting rules for operators and drivers in the road transport sector (“Mobility Package”) 
    2. Refusals to grant authorizations to acquire or possess firearms

 

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Privacy Statements

 

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Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (EMJM)

1. Official Information Process of CYQAA Agency for the accredited Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme

The CYQAA Council has examined the Council of the European Union’s document, under the title “Council conclusions on the European Universities initiative – Bridging higher education, research, innovation and society: Paving the way for a new dimension in European higher education (2021/C 221/03)” through which the European Council calls upon Member States “with full respect for Member States’ competences and with regard to the principle of subsidiarity, institutional autonomy, academic freedom and in accordance with national and regional circumstances” to, 

[35] Work together at international, national and regional level, as well as between governments and institutions, to identify and remove, where necessary, the obstacles towards more compatible higher education systems and closer strategic alliances of higher education institutions, building on the extensive work that has already been developed through the EEA, the EHEA and the ERA,

and

[37] Identify and remove, where necessary, obstacles to a European approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes, by reinforcing institutional linkages and procedures between evaluation, accreditation, and quality assurance agencies registered on EQAR, to find modalities of automatic mutual recognition, as well as by facilitating the implementation of quality assurance procedures and encouraging joint evaluation and accreditation of study programmes.

Within this framework the CYQAA Council has decided that as far as the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Programmes, are concerned, the Agency will follow the same policy as other agencies in European countries for the programmes which will be selected by the European Commission. That is, the programme will be evaluated by only one agency which will be registered in EQAR, fully adopting, thus, the https://www.dipae.ac.cy/archeia/anakoinoseis/02_European_Approach_QA_of_Joint_Programmes_v1_0.pdf" European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes which was approved by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

CYQAA should be officially informed for the selection and the operation of such joint programmes. The accredited Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Programmes are published on the table below  and they are announced by the Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth in the Official Gazette of the Government.

Participating Cyprus universities should send the official decision of the competent European body (European Education and Culture Executive Agency) to CYQAA.

2. Procedure for Submitting and Examining an Application for the evaluation/accreditation of an Erasmus Mundus  Joint Programme

The procedure for submitting and examining an Application for the accreditation/evaluation Erasmus Mundus Joint Programme from the CYQAA agency is exactly the same with the procedure followed for Joint Programmes. Information and forms for submitting and examining an application for the evaluation/accreditation of a joint programme can be found in FORMS.

3. Accredited Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes

The table below includes the Erasmus Mundus Joint Programmes delivered by an international consortium of higher education institutions (HEIs) from different countries worldwide. The programmes have been evaluated by external Evaluation Committees of Experts and accredited by agency which is registered in EQAR,  according to the procedures applied for conventional programmes of study and according to specific quality assurance criteria applied for joint programmes of study.


Christiana Maki

Christiana Maki is an education officer at CYQAA, managing HEIs' applications for programmatic, departmental and institutional evaluations. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA) and holds a Master of Science in Educational Leadership and Management from the Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM). She has worked for many years as a philologist in both private and public secondary schools in Cyprus.  She was also an officer of the European and International Affairs Office of the MoESY.

She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Education Sciences at the European University of Cyprus and her dissertation focuses on politics, education policy, and the construction of national identity.

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