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Campaigners are urging the public to donate money to save two green open spaces from development and potentially turn them into wildlife hot spots.
Buy Back Bermuda (BBB) — a collaboration between Bermuda National Trust and the Audubon Society — has ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2007
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Young drummers led a procession through the streets of the west end yesterday as a school celebrated its 80th anniversary.
Sandys Secondary Middle School invited two surviving members of its first ever class — Hope Bascome and Miriam Wilson-Trott — t...
DATE: Oct 27, 2007
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Henry Johnson, the man brought in by Government to tackle its self-proclaimed education crisis, has a phrase he litters his conversation with: student learning outcomes.
What the term really means, of course, is results — and right now, as he readily...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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The Berkeley Institute's board of governors has rejected a plan for a fee-paying centre at the school offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) qualification.
Board chairman Calvin White issued a statement yesterday in which he said that the idea...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton insisted yesterday that graduation rates were not being fudged or inflated before admitting that the 58 percent pass rate claimed for 2006 includes students who took an extra year to complete their Bermuda School Certi...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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The much-maligned Bermuda School Certificate could be scrapped and replaced with an internationally recognised qualification, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Henry Johnson, the Government's new $250,000-a-year education consultant, told this newspaper ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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A clearer picture of the number of students graduating from public schools is needed and will be provided in future years, according to the man tasked with improving Bermuda's education system.
Henry Johnson, the Government's new consultant executive...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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A class of teachers has proved that you're never too old to stop learning — by gaining Master's degrees here on the Island.
Fourteen teachers from the public school system have achieved degrees in organisational management — accredited by Endicott Co...
DATE: Oct 19, 2007
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A grey Toshiba laptop was stolen during a burglary at a home on Spanish Point Road, Pembroke, during the day on Tuesday.
Police are also investigating a report of a motorcycle taken from Par-la-Ville car park in Hamilton the same day.
The black Suzuk...
DATE: Oct 19, 2007
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Bermuda's new Director of Planning has pledged to rid the department of its reputation for inefficiency and address staff shortages.
Barbadian Trevor Leach was introduced to the media along with new E-Government Director Trevor Astwood at a press con...
DATE: Oct 19, 2007
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