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More than $55,000 in financial awards and scholarships was given out to Bermuda College students.
The funds were contributed by 26 sponsors drawn from across the community.
Thursday’s ceremony at the college saw 36 students awarded funds to begin or ...
DATE: Feb 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith has released a series of teacher and student numbers for the Island’s public schools.
Dame Jennifer gave the number of teachers employed during the 2011-12 school year as: 53 for preschools; 303 for primary scho...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
“Stringent requirements” govern the use of unlicensed teachers in Bermuda’s classrooms, according to educators who oversee the procedure.
Helle Patterson of Bermuda Educators Council spoke out after the Ministry of Education reported 22 exemptions ha...
DATE: Feb 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Education Ministry has granted 22 exemptions to unlicensed teachers, allowing them to fill vacancies in the public school system.
Seventeen exemptions were announced in the House of Assembly last week by Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith.
Sh...
DATE: Feb 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Association of School Principals has hit out again at the Ministry of Education’s decision to parachute an executive principal into Prospect Primary School amid concerns about student performance.
The organisation issued a fresh statement yesterd...
DATE: Jan 14, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government’s controversial appointment of an executive principal to boost performance at Prospect Primary School has been officially endorsed for the first time by the school’s executive.
Following talks with the Ministry of Education, the Prospect P...
DATE: Jan 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The placement of a Temporary Executive Principal at Prospect Primary School, effective today, has been defended by the Ministry of Education as an intervention at a “low performing school”.
However, parents are said to be disappointed at the sudden a...
DATE: Jan 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Department of Education was accused of “flagrant disregard” by the Association of School Principals (ASP), as uproar followed what the teachers’ group said was an unexplained and disruptive reform of leadership.
An Education spokeswoman last nigh...
DATE: Jan 07, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Despite a union vow to go down fighting, staff cuts at the Berkeley Institute were an inescapable consequence of budget cuts, according to both sides in the dispute.
Eight Bermudian support staff positions were terminated following mediations between...
DATE: Nov 09, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Students will be called upon to imagine a sustainable future for Bermuda, in a new guidebook unveiled by Government.
Announcing the completion of ‘Sustaining Bermuda’, Environment Minister Walter Roban said the book owed its “youth appeal” to the te...
DATE: Oct 20, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
