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The number of full-time students at Bermuda College has fallen by almost a quarter in the last year — but new president Duranda Greene has pledged to reverse the trend.
Figures provided to The Royal Gazette by Dr. Greene, who took over as president l...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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“I’m a kid at heart, definitely,” says author David Chapman, explaining how writing children’s books on the environment comes naturally to him.
“I kind of try to think like my children when I write,” adds the father-of-four. “I explore with my childr...
DATE: Apr 16, 2007
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The cause of continued teacher illness at CedarBridge Academy has still not been pinpointed despite an “incredible number” of experts tackling the problem, Education Minister Randy Horton admitted yesterday.
He told a press conference that the Govern...
DATE: Apr 14, 2007
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Teachers are now complaining on a daily basis of sickness thought to be caused by the environment at CedarBridge Academy, union leader Mike Charles has revealed.
The general secretary of Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) told The Royal Gazette that he ...
DATE: Apr 04, 2007
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Classes were called off at CedarBridge Academy today after teachers staged a "sick out" in protest at the school environment and its alleged effect on staff and students' health.
A large number of teachers called in sick, forcing the Ministry of Educ...
DATE: Apr 03, 2007
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The first female president of Bermuda College gave an emotional speech as she officially took on her new position yesterday.
Duranda Greene choked back tears as she paid tribute at an official hand-over ceremony at the Paget campus to her late grandm...
DATE: Apr 03, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton will today be presented with the results of an inquiry into how mould was able to contaminate and force the closure of the Island’s largest public school.
A three-member independent panel brought in by Government to in...
DATE: Mar 30, 2007
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The Attorney General told a meeting last night that Bermuda’s public education system needed dramatically restructuring from pre-school to the senior level.
Senator Philip Perinchief, a former teacher, said at least three public high schools were nee...
DATE: Mar 28, 2007
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Labour Minister Derrick Burgess has visited a Caribbean polytechnic which five Bermudian students dropped out of last year because their marine engineering course was not ready.
Mr. Burgess attended the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic in Barbados ...
DATE: Mar 24, 2007
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Students from Saltus Grammar School are in the UK visiting nine English universities.
A group of 24 students in their second-from-last year are touring Southampton, Exeter, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Warwick, Loughborough, Reading, Kingston, and Roeha...
DATE: Mar 22, 2007
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