Audit Office warns over permanent prefab classrooms

The widespread use of prefabricated classrooms in Cyprus’ public schools has become a permanent or semi-permanent solution to overcrowding, the Audit Office said in a special report released on Monday, highlighting serious shortcomings in the planning, oversight and management of school infrastructure.

Auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou stressed that the Audit Office does not object to the use of prefabricated classrooms in principle, noting that they can provide a flexible solution to...