University of Cyprus aims to establish itself as a Pioneer Research Institution achieving International Scientific Recognition in European Higher Education, offering Competitive Programmes and to become a Centre of Excellence in the wider Euro - Mediterranean Region.
The Department of Physics has created an innovative M.Sc.programme targeted at high school teachers, called “M.Sc. in Principles of Physics”.This is a University-approved programme that has been running since 2007. Thirty places are advertised each year.This programme does not lead to a specialization in aparticular field.It aims to familiarize students with current developments in a wide range of theoretical and experimental disciplines of Physics, as well as develop their holistic skills,so that they areable to tackle any subject in Physics using fundamental principles and methods. Thus the students will be able toaddress problems from areas hit her to unknown to them,applying techniques and methods that they have encountered in various fields of Physics.Their undergraduate knowledge will evolve, constituting at the end a solid body of principles,methods and techniques. This programme is designed, inparticular, for high school teachers who would like to further their versatility in all areas of Physics. No dissertationis required.