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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 leader Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday met with a delegation from the Greek federation of state secondary school teachers (OLME) at the party's headquarters in Athens.
The meeting focused on the opening of schools and the government's omnibus bill on education.
Tsipras expressed his party's disagreement with and objections to the bill, pointing out the "huge rush" to submit this to parliament in the midst of the pandemic.
He also noted that there are other major challenges during the current period, such remote working.
Regarding online learning, he said its use was correct during the lockdown period but that it can't be a substitute for 'live learning" in classrooms and he underlined the need to strengthen state education, where he noted that many teaching posts remain unfilled.
On his part OLME's president Theodoros Tsouchlos accused the government of "total silence" for one and a half month, during which it failed to engage or speak with teachers' unions despite the earth-shattering events that were taking place.
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.