The 2016/2017 academic year of Cyprus International University commenced with the first lesson delivered by the Northern Cyprus President MUSTAFA AKINCI

Cyprus: The 2016/2017 academic year of Cyprus International University(CIU) started with the first lesson delivered by Northern Cyprus president, and the chairman of the Board of Trustees, CIU, Mustafa AKINCI, at the Çevik Uraz Conference Hall, CIU, on Monday October 3rd 2016.

Also in attendance at the opening ceremony of the university were, Rector Prof. Dr. Halil NADİRİ, vice rectors, the adviser to the rector and the academic staffs.

The ceremony began with a one minute silence and the singing of the national anthem.

CIU Rector Prof. Dr. Halil NADİRİ, made the opening speech of the event, and gave information about the vision of the university and the relevant activity.

We start the new academic year with the 125 associate, graduate and post-graduate (Masters and PhD) degree programmes, Nadiri said.

Prof. Dr. Nadiri, said the university will start the new academic year with ten faculties, seven schools,  including the new school of Physical Education and Sports and with 125 associate, graduate and post-graduate (Masters and PhD) degree programmes in total.

He pointed out that the university will continues to develop with eleven 11 new programmes opened in 2016 which consist of two associate, six graduate and three master’s degree programmes.

Nadiri stated that the university provides a multicultural environment for approximately 15,000 students from 100 diverse countries.

Prof. Dr. Nadiri noted that the number of students which was nearly 7500 after the spring semester graduation of the 2014-2015 academic year has increased by a hundred percent in a short time.

Prof. Dr. Halil Nadiri, who emphasized on the importance of the physical development of Cyprus International University, said that in addition to the Science and technology building under construction, which he describe as the as the One-Stop building, that will meet the administrative needs of students in one building will soon be in service.

 “Sustainable success is possible with investment in quality issues” he added.

Prof. Dr. Nadiri, said CIU is a university that gives importance to international accreditation processes with respect to the vision that sustainable success is possible with investment in quality issues, and pointed out that the engineering programs in the university had been accredited by MÜDEK; the programmes of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture Faculty by MİAK; the Business Administration Department of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences by FIBAA.

Prof. Dr. Nadiri added that the accreditation processes of the Faculty of Education by EPDAD, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FEDEK, the School of Foreign Languages by PEARSON ASSURED, and the School of Tourism and Hotel Management and the School of Applied Sciences by FIBAA will be carried out in the 2016-2017 academic year.

In a speech by the president, Mustafa Akinci, he said;

“I am glad to deliver the first lesson of the CIU 2016-2017 academic year and share it with you.”

He wished the university a happy new academic year. President Mustafa AKINCI stated that he was delighted to deliver such an important first lecture at CIU.
The President touched down on the history of Cyprus, and the ongoing processes of the Cyprus negotiations and resolution talks.

President Aknici stated that Northern Cyprus as mono-communal republic remains unrecognized by the world because Cyprus has been recognized as a bi-communal country since 1963.

The president said further that since taking office in 2015 and during his tenure as president for the last sixteen months, there had been specific headings to be dealt with such as ‘administration and power sharing’, ‘ property’ ‘economy’ and ‘the European Union’.

He noted that new headings were added to these four-agreed headings, adding that they had reached a consensus on ‘administration and power sharing’, ‘property’ ‘economy’, ‘the European Union’ but stated that ‘security’, ‘guarantees’, ‘land issues were the new headings added to the existing ones.

President Akıncı said, negotiations will start again by Tuesday October 4th but if we cannot reach a political agreement by the end of 2017, everything will be more difficult”.

Akıncı, who said the Cyprus subject problem reached saturation point, made a remark that today the Cyprus issue is more difficult to deal with than it was 12 years ago.

President Aknici touched on the potential dangers that will arise if they fail to reach an agreement by the end of 2016 and pointed out that they must reach an agreement from which both sides will benefit.

The ceremony of the 2016/2017 academic year of Cyprus International University ended with the chair of the Board of Trustees, Mete BOYACI and Rector Prof. Dr. Halil Nadiri giving a commemorative plaque’ to President Mustafa AKINCI.

The chair of the Board of Trustees, CIU, Mete BOYACI and Rector Prof. Dr. Halil Nadiri giving a commemorative plaque’ to President Mustafa AKINCI

Source: CIU.edu.tr