"Turkish Cypriot students to pay full fees at English School
By Elias Hazou
AS OF the next academic year, the state will not pay the full tuition fees for new Turkish Cypriot students enrolled at the English School, breaking with practice ever since the checkpoints opened two years ago.
In September 2003 four Turkish Cypriots enrolled in the prestigious school, and 12 more were admitted the following year. At the time, the move was hailed as promoting bicommunal relations and restoring a multicultural heritage that was severed by the events of 1974.
The decision for free tuition was not the school’s, it was a political decision by the government. Tuition fees cost somewhere in the area of �3,000 per year.
Now the cash-strapped government is changing its approach; it will only offer �20,000 for assistance each year, a mere fraction of what it was offering previously. "
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