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We are all born free — that was the message given to primary school students as they were presented with illustrated books depicting the rights of every human on earth.
Amnesty International Bermuda is donating a hardback children's version of the Un...
DATE: Nov 21, 2008
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Government MP Lovitta Foggo has warned of the "negative labels" schools could end up with if their exam results are made public each year.
The Ministry of Education plans to start publishing test results in 2009 to improve accountability as part of t...
DATE: Nov 20, 2008
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Bermuda Union of Teachers today called for the immediate resignation or removal of Philip Butterfield, chairman of the interim executive board on education.
BUT president Keisha Douglas said comments made by Mr. Butterfield on Tuesday about teachers ...
DATE: Nov 20, 2008
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Ousted former Education Minister Randy Horton has refuted claims that there has been an exodus of students from the failing public school system.
Mr. Horton, who was sacked by the Premier earlier this month for not implementing educational reform fas...
DATE: Nov 17, 2008
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When The Royal Gazette launched its A Right to Know: Giving People Power campaign in January, one of the aims was to highlight for readers what they would be allowed to know if they lived in a country with freedom of information.
Millions of citizens...
DATE: Nov 13, 2008
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The chairman of Bermuda Educational Parents' Association has welcomed the Premier's decision to sack Education Minister Randy Horton last week.
Myron Piper, who founded his group earlier this year to give a voice to parents in the public school syste...
DATE: Nov 12, 2008
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Tens of thousands of volunteers across America knocked on doors in a bid to get Barack Obama into the White House — and there were plenty of Bermudians among them.
From Islanders who have lived in the States for decades, to those who travelled there ...
DATE: Nov 05, 2008
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Education Minister Randy Horton yesterday defended the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars on overseas consultants, insisting they were needed to help transform public schools.
Mr. Horton told The Royal Gazette: "These are people who have ac...
DATE: Nov 01, 2008
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Frustrated trade unionists have written to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) asking it to intervene with Government to ensure they are consulted on the overhaul of the public education system.
Anthony Wolffe, president of Bermuda Trades Uni...
DATE: Oct 30, 2008
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Public school principals told yesterday of their dissatisfaction and disaffection with educational reform during a historic meeting of a new parliamentary committee.
The Joint Education Select Committee opened its doors to the public and press for th...
DATE: Oct 23, 2008
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