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
2. Private UniversityUniversity of NicosiaEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.01008-05-2024S110-9 September 2024Spring Semester 2024-2025Fall Semester 2029
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationIntercollege (Nicosia)English Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.01008-05-2024S110-9 September 2024Spring Semester 2024-2025Fall Semester 2029
2. Private UniversityNeapolis University PaphosEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.01121-05-2024S114-27 January 2025Spring Semester 2024-2025Fall Semester 2029
4. Private Institution of Higher EducationThe Cyprus Academy of ArtEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.01311-02-2025S118-28 April 2025Spring Semester 2024-2025Fall Semester 2029
2. Private UniversityFrederick UniversityEnglish Language Foundation Programme (1 academic year)07.14.674.01224-07-2024S117-31 March 2025Fall Semester 2025-2026Fall Semester 2030
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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.

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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.

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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.

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  • 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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