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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 — Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance accused government spokesman Stelios Petsas of "unbelievable brazenness" for terming calls for the Education minister's resignation "a joke" following problems with e-learning on Monday.
The main opposition said attempts to cover the failure of the minister to adequately prepare a platform for high school students, and for failing to test-run it before classes on Monday, were "ridiculous" and more tragic than funny, for thousands of families with students.
In a similar vein, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras said that the so-called organized government "continues to lend itself to ridicule", starting with the distribution of oversized face masks in school to the failure to take advantage of time since the last lockdown in spring and organize distance learning better.
In an Instagram post, Tsipras said that "the educational platform touted so highly by the minister of Education (…) crashed a few minutes after starting, despite the ridiculous advisories to citizens to refrain from logging onto social media and streaming platforms at crux times to prevent the internet from overloading."
Among other things, he said, the government forgets that "thousands of families don't have high-speed internat and some families don't have computers, while tens of thousands of others are unable to buy a second or third computer to cope."
The government introduced a nationwide lockdown on Saturday until November 30, with distance learning for students from 7th grade on and a high percentage of employees working from home.
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.
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.
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.