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The teaching of literacy in middle and secondary schools needs to be improved, Education Minister Terry Lister admitted yesterday. Mr. Lister said primary school pupils were performing well in literacy tests but added: ?In the middle schools and seni...
DATE: Apr 20, 2006
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The Premier is backing a plan to launch a journalism training course for Bermudians on the Island.
Bermuda College is in talks with about developing a programme to produce more home-grown reporters.
Dr. Charles Green, president of Bermuda College, re...
DATE: Apr 15, 2006
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Gifted students could obtain degrees while still at school under a new plan being considered by Bermuda College.
The college is talking to the Ministry of Education about enrolling students in associate degree courses ? the forerunner to a bachelor d...
DATE: Apr 12, 2006
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Workers should be able to carry their savings and pensions with them wherever they travel within the Caribbean Community (Caricom), Premier Alex Scott told a pensions conference yesterday (Thurs).
Mr. Scott was speaking at the Second Annual Atlantic ...
DATE: Apr 07, 2006
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Children are being encouraged to let their imaginations run riot at a three-day art camp this week.
Fourteen youngsters aged five to eight from all over the Island have been decorating mosaic pots at the annual spring art camp at Bermuda National Gal...
DATE: Apr 05, 2006
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The Shadow Health Minister has criticised Government for not putting funds aside in this year's Budget to deal with a potential bird flu pandemic.
Louise Jackson claimed extra money should already have been earmarked by Government to buy medicine and...
DATE: Apr 04, 2006
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Teachers last night issued a stark warning to Government after revealing that a 14-year-old boy who allegedly assaulted a senior staff member at CedarBridge Academy was suspended for just ten days.
Lisa Trott, president of Bermuda Union of Teachers (...
DATE: Mar 30, 2006
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Two education experts from the UK have visited an Island middle school to see how it has benefited from a partnership with a bank.
Dame Mary Richardson, chief executive of the HSBC Education Trust, and David Hopkins, HSBC Chairman in International Le...
DATE: Mar 27, 2006
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The new leader of the United Bermuda Party (UBP) unveiled an eight-point plan to transform the Island at a celebratory event last night.
Wayne Furbert delivered the party's "New Vision" to rapturous applause from hundreds of supporters at the Fairmon...
DATE: Mar 24, 2006
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The millions of dollars invested by Government in public education is producing ?paltry returns?, a Senator alleged yesterday.
Senator E.T. (Bob) Richards said there was a ?crisis in confidence? in Bermuda?s public schools, despite $131 million being...
DATE: Mar 21, 2006
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