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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’ unions and federations were demonstrating alongside university students in front of the Greek parliament on Thursday, protesting against the government’s intention to make the qualifications awarded by private colleges equal to university degrees.
The protest was organized in opposition to government plans to overhaul funding rules for state-run higher education institutions that include closing several university faculties.
The demonstrators demanded the withdrawal of the draft bill and of “punitive provisions” related to hiring state school teachers.
Gennimata: Gov’t discrediting public education and serving private interests
The government is discrediting public education and serving private interests, claimed Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata after a roll call vote in parliament on Thursday, which approved measures concerning the professional rights of private college teachers.
Gennimata said that the government is making university degrees equivalent to the qualifications awarded by private colleges, discrediting universities and the role of schools.
“New Democracy has no national plan on education. It is not interested in public education but serves private interests,” Gennimata said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.