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Meddling members of the Corporation of Hamilton have forced out senior staff and caused a rift at the municipality, according to the former chief engineer.
Ian Hind told The Royal Gazette that City Hall was "the most awful environment to work in" bec...
DATE: Aug 06, 2008
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Full-time enrolment at Bermuda College has dropped to its second lowest point in the last five years — with tiny numbers of students now taking technical education and hospitality courses.
Figures released by the Ministry of Education reveal that the...
DATE: Jul 17, 2008
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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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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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A Commissioner of Education is to be appointed to lead a re-organised Ministry of Education and draft a strategy for the public school system.
The Education Amendment Act 2008 — tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday — sets out the responsibilitie...
DATE: Jul 01, 2008
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Education Minister Randy Horton has praised a group of Bermudians who have successfully completed the Bermuda Teacher Induction Programme.
Mr. Horton recently told the House of Assembly that 25 teachers had recently graduated from the two-year scheme...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008
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