George Aletraris is an Education Officer at CYQAA, where he manages HEIs' applications for programmatic, departmental and institutional evaluations. His duties involve the selection of EEC members, communication, organization and scheduling of their visits. Furthermore, the preparation of all the necessary documentation related to the experts’ visit, EEC members’ briefing and orientation and the accompanying of the EEC members during site visits and facilitating the work of the EEC during their stay in Cyprus with additional feedback. George is responsible for studying the experts’ external evaluation reports and the write-up of reports memorandums and letters to HEIs on the basis of Council decisions. Other duties involve the representation of the Agency at the International Educational Exhibition, as well as the training of new staff on issues related to the Agency’s operation. Preparation of announcements which are published on the Agency’s website, translating and editing of CYQAA documents Greek-English and vice versa. Moreover, George is the appointed national coordinator for the notifications of the new diplomas of the Cypriot universities through the Internal Market information system (IMI) as provided by the Directive 2013/55/EU in order to inform the other member states and the European Commission. CYQAA acts as a notification authority of diplomas in addition to the tasks as coordinator. George has a BA with Honors in Geography (University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA), an MA in Urban Geography (York University, Toronto, ON, Canada) as well as a Master in Urban-Regional Planning (MURP) (London South Bank University, UK). Prior to joining CYQAA, he has held various geography teaching positions in Cyprus and Canada, as well as a City Planning position in the United States.
As of 2022, George is included in the «ENQA pool of experts». He was awarded the “Certificate of Attendance”, after completing the ENQA’s 14th Training of Agency Reviewers for the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG 2015) and the ENQA Agency Reviews process, 9-10 May 2022, Brussels, Belgium
Kostas Konstantinou is a graduate of the Department of Greek Philology of the University of Athens and holds a Master Degree in Educational Management from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He has worked for many years in the Secondary Education of Cyprus as a Philologist. He served as a Consultant Officer of Greek Literature at the Ministry of Education and Culture (2010 – 2013) and as an Educational Officer of the General Directorate of the Secondary Education Inspectorate (2013-2014). He has also worked in the Secondary Education Division of the Ministry (2015-2016), and in the Private Education Office (2016-2018). Since 2018, he has been seconded to the Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education. His tasks include: Coordination and management of programmatic, departmental, and institutional external evaluations. He is also responsible for the selection process of external evaluation experts, preparation of external evaluation reports, the drafting of the annual report, memoranda, the editing of the Agency’s publications etc.
He is a PhD candidate of Greek Language at the Open University of Cyprus and his dissertation focuses on The idiom of Tilliria
Marina Zervou is an Education Officer at CYQAA where she coordinates External Evaluations conducted by the Agency.
Previously she worked as an Art Teacher in Secondary Education and was responsible for creating and designing Educational Programs for Secondary General Education in the field of Museum Education. In this context, she collaborated with museums and art-galleries, like the Archeological Museum in Nicosia, Leventios Gallery and NiMAC and was also in charge of student and art teachers guided tours, workshops and talks within museum and gallery spaces.
As a teacher, Marina participated in a number of Erasmus-Plus programs and also represented Cyprus in Tallinn, Estonia, for the European Junior Achievement Award Competition after her team of students and colleagues won the JAA in 2014.
Marina holds a BA in Fine Arts, from the Athens School of Fine Arts where she studied on a scholarship by the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece. She continued her studies at the University of the Arts London (UAL), Camberwell College of Arts, where she obtained a Master’s Degree in Drawing. As an artist she has exhibited widely in Cyprus, Greece, UK, Finland and Mexico.Natasa Kazakeou is a graduate of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Aberystwyth, Wales, UK of with a BSc title. She also holds a Master Degree in Business Administration from the Mediterranean Institute of Management (MIM) and a Master Degree in Educational Administration and Evaluation from the University of Cyprus. She has worked for many years in the Secondary Education of Cyprus as an Information Technology Teacher. She has participated in many European Seminars of Cyprus Pedagogical tracking and exploring the benefits introducing new technologies in the educational process. Since September of 2018, she has been seconded to the Sector of Administrative Procedures Management of Ministry of Education and Culture and to the Cyprus Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education. Her tasks at CYQAA include: the maintenance of the Agency's Mobile Property Register, coordinating the Agency's IT activities to ensure data availability and network services, identifying security vulnerabilities and eliminating them with strategic solutions that increase data security, the management of the Agency's website and social media, directing (preparation of notes) and supporting implementation of new software and hardware, communicating with team and other external departments as collaboration requires, analyse, design, implement and manage the database system for the registry of certified programs, departments, institutions and experts.
Anthi Prokopa has been coordinating external programmatic and institutional evaluations within CYQAA since 2016. With a BA in Chemistry, from the University of Patras in Greece, Anthi has worked in the field of health services for 10 years before she started working as a Secondary Education Teacher in the public sector in 2005. As an Education Officer at CYQAA, and in addition to the coordination of external evaluations, Anthi is primarily responsible for new staff training, the implementation of Council decisions and the compilation of the Agency’s Registry of Experts. Anthi has attended a number of conferences and seminars in Cyprus and abroad relevant to Quality Assurance in Higher Education.