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Government spends the largest single chunk of its budget on education ¿ more than $150 million for this financial year alone.
Taxpayers' cash is used, quite rightly, to pay for everything from textbooks and teachers' salaries, to staff wages at the M...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Sam Strangeways
Government spends the largest single chunk of its budget on education – more than $150 million for this financial year alone.
Taxpayers' cash is used, quite rightly, to pay for everything from textbooks and teachers' salaries, to staff wages at the M...
DATE: Jan 21, 2008
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Sam Strangeways
Ellen-Kate Horton sent an e-mail to public school principals, teachers and Ministry of Education staff on Friday, December 21, at 4.31 p.m.
"Good Evening everyone," she wrote. "Earlier today, the permanent secretaries received appointments. I am extr...
DATE: Jan 04, 2008
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Teachers' union leader Mike Charles yesterday accused Government of showing "disrespect" by failing to tell the organisation that Ellen-Kate Horton had been moved from the Ministry of Education.
Mr. Charles, general secretary of Bermuda Union of Teac...
DATE: Jan 04, 2008
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A consultant drafted into the Ministry of Education temporarily last summer has had his $90,000-a-year contract renewed for another six months amid claims that the money could be better spent on another teacher.
Communications consultant Scott Simmon...
DATE: Jan 04, 2008
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A senior education officer from America who claims he was unlawfully sacked by Government has been ordered to get off the Island by tomorrow.
Dr. Craig Nikolai, who headed the research, measurement and evaluation team at the Ministry of Education, fo...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Education has been moved to another role in Government — less than two weeks after apparently being promoted to the position.
Ellen-Kate Horton, sister of Education Minister Randy Horton, is understood to be...
DATE: Jan 03, 2008
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Premier Ewart Brown is unlikely to dramatically alter his Cabinet in the aftermath of Tuesday's third straight election win, according to party insiders.
Sources in the Progressive Labour Party told The Royal Gazette yesterday that most Ministers are...
DATE: Dec 20, 2007
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The teacher who first raised the alarm about harmful mould at CedarBridge Academy three years ago is still waiting to find out if she will receive financial compensation for her shattered health.
Wendy Robinson has stayed publicly silent about her il...
DATE: Dec 18, 2007
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Keisha Douglas knows her stuff when it comes to public schools.
The new president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers has worked in education for 13 years, mainly as a teacher but also as a mathematics adviser at the Ministry of Education.
She was made ...
DATE: Dec 17, 2007
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