Construction company Cyfield received a permit from the Yposonas Municipality, for the installation of offices on the construction site of the new Technical School and a branch of the Pedagogical Institute in Agios Nikolaos parish of Kato Polemidia municipality at the end of March, which marked the start of the construction works. The reason the site offices were licensed by Ypsonas, (even though the project is located on the territory of Polemidia), is that with this arrangement, the local authority could provide them with water, (which the Limassol Water Board could not in the specific area, by Ypsonas Mayor Pantelis Georgiou.
However, Ypsonas’s interest in the advent of the new School is not confined to these details, since as Pantelis Georgiou pointed out to "Entrepreneurial Limassol", given the industrial development in the Municipality, there is a huge need for technical professions, especially in the industrial are and adjacent industrial zones. Furthermore, he, "great employment opportunities will be available to the people who will study in the Technical School, in light of synergies with the local industry.
The cost of building the new Technical School, and the annex of the Pedagogical Institute, will amount to €27,715,000, the duration of the work will be 36 months and it will receive funding from the EU. Construction is expected to be completed within 2025. As the director of Secondary Technical Education, Ilias Markatziis, previously told us, the new Technical School will be able to accept 700 students and is intended to attract children from the region, in which until now there are no Technical Schools, as a result of which the children who come from it are discouraged. to follow a technical direction.
As the director of Secondary Technical Education, Elias Markatzis, had previously told us, the new Technical School will be able to accept 700 students and is intended to attract children from the region, in which until now there are no Technical Schools, as a result of which the children who come from it have been discouraged from following a technical direction. The new school building will be state-of-the-art, with fully equipped laboratories for the disciplines of Mechanical Engineering, Services, Industrial Design and Applied Arts. There is also provision for new majors such as Renewable Energy, Digital Technology-Programming, Hospitality Management, Jewellery Design-Making and Apparel Design-Making. Upon completion of the new building the area of the present A' Technical School of Limassol will handed over to the Cyprus University of Technology.
