What happened to the assurances? Corfu School of Tourism has one employee!
Tourism College
30 Sep 2021
/ 13:04
CORFU. Teachers΄ Union and students are exasperated with the situation.
The Corfu School of Tourism Teachers' Union and student community have issued the following statement to express their exasperation:
"Is this the end of the Corfu School of Tourism?
Despite the assurances from those responsible for tourism education and vocational guidance that all administrative and teaching staff will be in place by mid-September, we are now at the end of the month and nothing has happened. The only employee in place at the moment is the Director - during the period when students are enrolling.
We are distressed to find that no efforts are being made to ensure the smooth running of something so important for the local economy and the community, threatening the school with closure due to the lack of personnel and wiping out all the good work that has been done since 1976.
We, therefore, call on all students and their families, young and old, all the friends of the school, organisations and groups as well as all the Corfu public to stand with us in our just demands to support this unique School of Tourism.
We don't want to see yet another institute closed in our community, which, unfortunately, doesn't stand up for the most basic of rights!
We are demanding what is self-evident in order to ensure that the School of Tourism can continue to operate normally. For 40 years, the school has been staffed by specialised personnel, not only from hotels, but from all the hospitality industry in our country.
In conclusion, we would like to express our exasperation with the mockery that is being made of students, teachers and especially the Corfu people, who, yet again, are witnessing an important educational institution being summarily take apart.
Dear friends, if today we don't reiterate in every way possible our determination to keep the school open, tomorrow may, unfortunately, be too late."
"Is this the end of the Corfu School of Tourism?
Despite the assurances from those responsible for tourism education and vocational guidance that all administrative and teaching staff will be in place by mid-September, we are now at the end of the month and nothing has happened. The only employee in place at the moment is the Director - during the period when students are enrolling.
We are distressed to find that no efforts are being made to ensure the smooth running of something so important for the local economy and the community, threatening the school with closure due to the lack of personnel and wiping out all the good work that has been done since 1976.
We, therefore, call on all students and their families, young and old, all the friends of the school, organisations and groups as well as all the Corfu public to stand with us in our just demands to support this unique School of Tourism.
We don't want to see yet another institute closed in our community, which, unfortunately, doesn't stand up for the most basic of rights!
We are demanding what is self-evident in order to ensure that the School of Tourism can continue to operate normally. For 40 years, the school has been staffed by specialised personnel, not only from hotels, but from all the hospitality industry in our country.
In conclusion, we would like to express our exasperation with the mockery that is being made of students, teachers and especially the Corfu people, who, yet again, are witnessing an important educational institution being summarily take apart.
Dear friends, if today we don't reiterate in every way possible our determination to keep the school open, tomorrow may, unfortunately, be too late."
