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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Greece’s international creditors want teachers to work longer hours and have bigger classes as part of reforms attached to ongoing bailouts and austerity measures designed to make the country more competitive and efficient.
Speaking after a meeting with representatives of the Troika of the European Union-European Central Bank-European Stability Mechanisms (EU-ECB-ESM) in Athens, a senior ministry official told Kathimerini that “a clash is unavoidable.”
The creditors, who put up a third bailout, this one for 86 billion euros ($102.32) billion that Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said he would never seek nor accept but did both, also want teachers to be evaluated, a demand Greek civil servant workers are fiercely resisting.
The latest education report published by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found Greece being well below the OECD average in the number of teaching hours per year in general lower secondary education.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.