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Education Minister Randy Horton insisted yesterday that graduation rates were not being fudged or inflated before admitting that the 58 percent pass rate claimed for 2006 includes students who took an extra year to complete their Bermuda School Certi...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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The much-maligned Bermuda School Certificate could be scrapped and replaced with an internationally recognised qualification, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Henry Johnson, the Government's new $250,000-a-year education consultant, told this newspaper ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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A clearer picture of the number of students graduating from public schools is needed and will be provided in future years, according to the man tasked with improving Bermuda's education system.
Henry Johnson, the Government's new consultant executive...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Students across the Island celebrated International Literacy Day yesterday — with one school getting an extra special visitor to mark the occasion.
Football hero Shaun Goater dropped in on an assembly at Clearwater Middle School in St. David's to tal...
DATE: Oct 11, 2007
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The electrical wiring industry could pull the plug on a course it sponsors at Bermuda College amid claims that the college has dragged its heels over completion of a vital training lab.
The National Training Board (NTB) — which co-sponsors the course...
DATE: Oct 11, 2007
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The Berkeley Institute is considering opening a fee-paying facility offering a world-renowned qualification to senior school students.
The Berkeley International Baccalaureate (IB) Centre would be based on the school's old site in Pembroke and would ...
DATE: Oct 08, 2007
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The principal and senior management at the Berkeley Institute are spending more time mentoring teachers in the classroom in an attempt to improve student attainment.
Michelle Simmons told The Royal Gazette that this term has seen far more of a hands-...
DATE: Oct 08, 2007
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The chairman of Bermuda College has hit back at a call by one of his predecessors for the facility to be dismantled due to the falling number of full time students.
Larry Mussenden said last night he was "surprised and disappointed" that Nalton Brang...
DATE: Oct 04, 2007
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A former chairman of Bermuda College is calling for it to be dismantled after it was revealed that fewer than 300 full time students enrolled this semester.
Nalton Brangman, who was sacked as chairman of the board of governors in September last year,...
DATE: Oct 03, 2007
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One of Bermuda's greatest educators was honoured yesterday as the school which she led for more than three decades was renamed after her.
Southampton Glebe Primary School became the Dalton E. Tucker Primary School thanks to a proposal from the class ...
DATE: Oct 02, 2007
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