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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 leader Alexis Tsipras, in a question for the prime minister in parliament on Tuesday, asked that the government not implement changes in the system for university admission as they will exclude some 20,000 to 30,000 applicants.
"The government's policy of limiting the number of students admitted to state universities will undoubtedly lead to a significant increase in the number of private colleges, for those who can afford the tuition fees, but also a rapid increase in educational inequality," Tsipras said, adding that the establishment of a minimum pass mark for admission is expected to lead to 20,000 to 30,000 fewer candidates entering universities compared to last year, and to create thousands of vacancies in regional universities, leading them to an administrative and financial impasse.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.
PARIS (AP) — The second retractable roof at Roland Garros will be inaugurated on the opening day of the French Open next month, organizers said on Thursday about a project planned with the Paris Olympics in mind.