Fact: A team from Neapolis University of Paphos in Cyprus secured a spot in the finals of the ICPC competition for the first time, competing against students from 3,000 universities across 111 countries.
The dentistry faculty at Morphou’s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) had its license to teach temporarily revoked by the north’s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak) until January 31 of the next year due to ongoing investigations into a scandal involving the alleged issuance of fake diplomas. A former private secretary to a former ‘prime minister’, now a civil servant at the ‘labour ministry’, was arrested in connection with the scandal. He enrolled at the university on September 13, 2022, and received a four-year degree certificate on the same day after 61 course grades were entered into the university’s database within minutes. This degree enabled him to receive a pay rise in his public sector job. He was remanded in custody for two days for the police to calculate the financial gains from his alleged deception.