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A new summer camp for youngsters interested in a career in health care will start this year.
Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) and Bermuda College are inviting children aged ten to 14 to sign up for CampMed.
The programme will include tours of King Edwar...
DATE: Mar 31, 2009
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Technical students are to learn their trades at Bermuda College thanks to a new partnership with the National Training Board.
The two publicly funded quangos have entered into an agreement to work together to help build up Bermuda's skilled labour fo...
DATE: Mar 30, 2009
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons has welcomed a plan to bring in an overseas curriculum for Bermuda's public schools.
The Opposition MP said adopting and adapting a proven curriculum from elsewhere would free up resources which could be spent ...
DATE: Mar 26, 2009
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Education Minister El James has a simple philosophy when it comes to managing people: "You get more with honey than you do with salt."
It's an apt belief for a man who keeps bees as a hobby and is so far, he believes, paying dividends in his new role...
DATE: Mar 23, 2009
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The Hopkins recommendations report card: Education Minister El James and Board of Education chairman Mark Byrne on how we are doing
• One: dramatically improve quality of teaching
El James: "We have made tremendous strides. As Hopkins stated, there a...
DATE: Mar 23, 2009
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Mark Byrne has mastered flying a plane and spearheading an international reinsurance company — and now he's turning his attention to overhauling Bermuda's beleaguered education system.
The new chairman of the Board of Education told The Royal Gazette...
DATE: Mar 23, 2009
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A new curriculum for public schools is to be brought in from abroad — and Bermudianised.
New Board of Education chairman Mark Byrne and Education Minister El James have revealed that a plan to rewrite the current curriculum following an audit from ov...
DATE: Mar 23, 2009
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A revised and rewritten set of rules for the House of Assembly will go before MPs this summer — when they could be asked to approve the opening up of parliamentary committees.
Deputy Speaker Dame Jennifer Smith and Shadow Legislative Reform Minister ...
DATE: Mar 20, 2009
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The public will be asked to comment on a draft freedom of information law in 2009, Attorney General Kim Wilson has promised.
Sen. Wilson told The Royal Gazette that a first draft of the proposed Public Access to Information (PATI) legislation was com...
DATE: Mar 16, 2009
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Children will learn how to make healthy choices about drugs, alcohol and cigarettes at an early age, thanks to a soon-to-be-launched initiative.
The Al's Pals programme is aimed at helping students aged three to eight understand self-control and deve...
DATE: Mar 16, 2009
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