{"id":22777,"date":"2018-03-19T00:36:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T23:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22777"},"modified":"2018-03-19T00:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T23:38:53","slug":"congratulations-to-andria-zafirakou-the-best-teacher-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22777","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Andria Zafirakou, the best teacher in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-43422199\">the news<\/a>\u00a0that Andria\u00a0Zafirakou has become the first British winner of the Global Teacher Prize, beating teachers nominated from more than 170 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The prize of $1million (\u00a3720,000), launched in 2015 by an education charity, the Varkey Foundation, was created to give more status to the teaching profession, with an Oscars-style awards ceremony in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Zafirakou is a teacher not just from my country (United Kingdom), not just from my city (London), not just from my borough (Brent), but at a school in Alperton which is literally just down the road from where I live. Her success will be a huge inspiration to all teachers and pupils in my locality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am delighted by the news\u00a0that Andria\u00a0Zafirakou has become the first British winner of the Global Teacher Prize, beating teachers nominated from more than 170 countries. The prize of $1million (\u00a3720,000), launched in 2015 by an education charity, the Varkey Foundation, was created to give more status to the teaching profession, with an Oscars-style awards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22777"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22786,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22777\/revisions\/22786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}