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The Berkeley Institute has scored a century — 100 students have graduated from the school this year.
And many of the school leavers celebrating gaining their Bermuda School Certificate (BSC) have secured places at universities overseas.
Principal Mic...
DATE: Jul 11, 2008
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Parents are pulling their children out of Whitney Institute Middle School amid fears that the unsafe school will not reopen in September.
The Royal Gazette understands that the parents of as many as 20 students have applied for their offspring to beg...
DATE: Jul 10, 2008
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Calls by UK MPs for freedom of information legislation to be introduced in all the British Overseas Territories should spur Bermuda into action, according to former Premier Alex Scott.
A newly published report from the UK Foreign Affairs Committee (F...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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Calls by UK MPs for freedom of information legislation to be introduced in all the British Overseas Territories should spur Bermuda into action, according to former Premier Alex Scott.
A newly published report from the UK Foreign Affairs Committee (F...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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Taxpayers have forked out more than $11,000 on US education expert Henry Johnson's trips home in the past eight months.
The $250,000-a-year consultant — brought to Bermuda last August to transform public schools — has flown business class back to the...
DATE: Jul 09, 2008
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Former Attorney General Larry Mussenden has stepped down as chairman of Bermuda College after 19 months in the post.
The Ministry of Education said it had accepted his resignation due to increased private commitments which meant he could not longer s...
DATE: Jul 07, 2008
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Worried parents at a school which faces losing its governing body claim education chiefs are failing to communicate with them.
The parent-teacher association at St. George's Preparatory School handed a long list of detailed questions to Education Min...
DATE: Jul 05, 2008
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A former chief education officer has called for the Island's new Commissioner of Education to be given proper powers to implement change in public schools.
Joseph Christopher, who was Chief Education Officer (CEO) for about a decade until his retirem...
DATE: Jul 05, 2008
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Police officers have suffered a three-year "ordeal" over pay which ought to be swiftly resolved, the head of the Bermuda Public Services Union said last night.
BPSU general secretary Ed Ball spoke out in support of Bermuda Police Association (BPA) af...
DATE: Jul 04, 2008
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A parish council has become the first on the Island to donate money to an initiative aimed at saving open spaces for future generations.
Members of Southampton Parish Council yesterday handed over $10,000 to the Buy Back Bermuda (BBB) campaign, which...
DATE: Jul 04, 2008
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