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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 – Teachers in Greece who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo regular testing face being suspended and taking a pay cut as well as other disciplinary measures.
The government hasn't made shots mandatory except for health care workers – even tourism workers on islands where the Coronavirus is spreading are exempt – but wants teachers to be free of the virus when they return to class.
With the Delta Variant rising and even threatening the fully vaccinated, there is concern that the pandemic that had been waning before restrictions were eased and tourists arrived could extend into the autumn.
Sources the paper didn't name told Kathimerini that regulations are being prepared by the Education Ministry to protect students and staff in schools where classes will resume in person after a rocky former year in which many were held remotely.
The requirement will also include university professors and staff, the paper said, adding that those who refuse to show they are not infected are in line for penalties, including temporary staff being suspended.
Permanent and contractual staff will also face losing credits under the civil service’s point system, which will affect their prospects of promotion or employment, but the government said no one will be fired yet.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.