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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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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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Public school principals told the first open meeting of the Island’s Joint Select Committee on Education today that they felt excluded from the reform process and unconvinced by a “scattergun” approach to making changes.
Four representatives from the...
DATE: Oct 22, 2008
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An open meeting of a new parliamentary select committee on education will take place tomorrow — with the public and press able to attend for the first time.
The cross-party committee will meet in the Senate Chamber at Cabinet House at 1 p.m. Open com...
DATE: Oct 21, 2008
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A committee is still considering whether to replace or redesign the Bermuda School Certificate, the Ministry of Education said yesterday.
A spokesman told The Royal Gazette that a working group set up last year to look at the BSC — the qualification ...
DATE: Oct 17, 2008
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons last night urged Government to urgently replace or redesign the "substandard" Bermuda School Certificate.
The Opposition MP spoke out a day after Labour and Immigration Minister David Burch told Rotarians he wa...
DATE: Oct 16, 2008
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