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The man in charge of maintaining CedarBridge Academy for the last seven years claimed yesterday he had been made a “fall guy” by the panel which probed the school’s mould crisis.
Ross Smith, 41, told The Royal Gazette his name had been “scandalised” ...
DATE: May 29, 2007
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An independent report into the CedarBridge Academy mould crisis was described last night as a “study in negligence and gross mismanagement” by Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons.
The former Opposition Leader said the damning document — produced ...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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It was conceived in the early 1990s as a flagship “mega school” at the heart of a massive reform of public education in Bermuda. But CedarBridge Academy, badly built and never properly looked after according to a hard-hitting report released last we...
DATE: May 28, 2007
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One student almost died and at least 13 others suffered illnesses which were “very probably” caused by mould infestation at CedarBridge Academy, a shocking new report reveals.
An independent panel interviewed almost 100 people in connection with the ...
DATE: May 26, 2007
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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons is calling on Government to fulfil its promise to release in full a damning report on the Island’s public schools.
Education Minister Randy Horton has promised that the document — penned by UK professor David H...
DATE: May 22, 2007
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Grant Gibbons is clearly, like all of the Island’s politicians, in election mode right now. Newly appointed as Shadow Education Minister, he has a lot to say about how he would improve Bermuda’s in-crisis public school system — and plenty of blame to...
DATE: May 21, 2007
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Bermudian schoolchildren will get the chance to meet a former commodities trader described as having one of the quickest mathematical brains on the planet next week.
Students at Berkeley Institute, CedarBridge Academy, Clearwater Middle School, Harri...
DATE: May 18, 2007
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Calls for an Island-wide feeding programme for hungry schoolchildren continue to grow — though not everyone believes the state should provide the solution.
The Royal Gazette reported last week on a group of volunteers from the Seventh-day Adventist C...
DATE: May 08, 2007
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Bermuda's headteachers have for years been sounding the same warnings as an expert team brought in tackle the failing education system, according to the president of the Association of School Principals.
Freddie Evans told The Royal Gazette that the ...
DATE: May 08, 2007
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The chairman of Berkeley Institute's board of governors said on Friday he was keen to hear more about an idea to join the school in a federation with CedarBridge Academy.
Calvin White told The Royal Gazette: "I do think it's an interesting concept an...
DATE: May 07, 2007
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