Gazette has learned.

Cabinet Secretary Mr. Leopold Mills will announce the appointment when he returns from holiday next week, sources said.

Mr. Horton, 46, is senior education officer (finance, administration and personnel) in the Education Ministry.

He is expected to take up his new $90,462 a year post in mid-summmer.

In 1990, Mr. Horton was named to oversee the reforms to Bermuda's education system.

A former special assistant to Education Permanent Secretary Dr. Marion Robinson, Mr. Horton moved from Berkeley Institute to ministry headquarters in 1987.

He developed the Bermuda Teacher Induction Programme, which paired new teachers with veterans to help them adjust to the Bermuda system.

A Berkeley graduate, Mr. Horton returned to his alma mater as an English teacher in 1970. He served as head of the English department and deputy principal before he returned to university and earned a Masters degree in English from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Earlier, he received a degree in Education from the London Colleges of St.

Mark and St. John in England.

Mr. Horton fills a post that has been vacant since Mr. Mills was named to succeed Mr. Kenneth Richardson as Cabinet Secretary early last year. Mr. John Drinkwater is the other assistant Cabinet Secretary.

Mr. Horton was born in Somerset to Mr. Kenneth and Mrs. Dorothea Horton. He attended West End Primary School.