189 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Editorials"
Dr Joseph Froncioni has long been the leading advocate for making Bermuda’s roads safer.
As a surgeon and later as chairman of the Road Safety Council, he saw too many examples of lives being lost or irreparably injured not to do something about it....
DATE: Jan 19, 2012
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A furore has arisen over the decision to place a temporary executive principal at Prospect Primary School.
This has occurred because the Ministry of Education has become concerned about underperformance at the school and test scores have shown interv...
DATE: Jan 10, 2012
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Few people will have been sorry to see the back of 2011, a year in which the Bermuda economy continued to decline and the spectre of serious crime still hung over the Island.
So it is better to look forward rather than backwards, although it is to be...
DATE: Jan 04, 2012
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The long-awaited 2010 Census has now been released, and although there are some vital statistics that are yet to be released, the report gives a reasonable idea of where Bermuda stands.
As of 2010, there were six percent more people in Bermuda than ...
DATE: Dec 16, 2011
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There was good news in the House of Assembly on Friday when Economy Minister Patrice Minors announced that one of the worst decisions made in the last ten years was being “relaxed”.
This was the “return to sender” rule for minor address mistakes. De...
DATE: Dec 05, 2011
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It is hard not to be ambivalent about the idea of decriminalisation of drugs, or even of relaxing conviction and sentencing guidelines.
On the one hand, it is surely obvious that the “war on drugs” is not working. Making drug addicts criminals has in...
DATE: Dec 01, 2011
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Opposition Leader Craig Cannonier delivered his Reply to the Throne Speech on Friday.
It was also his maiden speech, which is a first for Bermuda, and an unusual event in parliamentary democracies.
The speech shows that the One Bermuda Alliance pla...
DATE: Nov 21, 2011
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Educators are not happy that this newspaper described the disagreement over what constitutes a passing grade in GCSE exams as a “row”. So be it. The fact is that this is a deadly serious issue which needs to be settled.
Quite simply, you cannot have...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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It is pretty obvious that no single change will end violent crime, especially among young people. But a multitude of small steps can make a difference.
In that context, CedarBridge Academy’s partnership with Peaceful Schools International will help,...
DATE: Sep 23, 2011
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A recent editorial criticised the pace of education reform since the 2007 Hopkins Report and questioned whether there was meaningful progress in public education.
Whether it was in response to that editorial or not, Education Minister Dame Jennifer ...
DATE: Sep 21, 2011
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