189 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Editorials"
Child psychologists and self help parenting books are consistent on one point: Children and teenagers respond to structure and consistency.
So it’s worrying that each school year seems to start with uncertainty and change.
To be sure, all schools n...
DATE: Sep 13, 2011
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Cup Match, more than any other event, symbolises Bermuda.
It is a time when people come together, and come home, to celebrate what it means to be Bermudian and to enjoy each other’s company. It is entirely fitting that the first day of Cup Match is o...
DATE: Jul 27, 2011
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Premier Paula Cox urged Bermudians not to be “self-haters and self-doubters” at a town-hall meeting on the economy this week.
This can be viewed in different ways. As a question of confidence, it is a chicken and egg conundrum. Without economic grow...
DATE: Jul 22, 2011
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Dr Monique Keyser has not told Bermuda anything it does not know, even if it does not want to admit it, about the small army of “wall sitters” and gang members who are steadily destroying themselves and the social fabric of the Island.
But it is imm...
DATE: Jul 01, 2011
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Government's decision to investigate the Operation Ceasefire as part of the effort to combat gang violence should be welcomed.
This newspaper has long advocated this programme, as has the Opposition, and especially Opposition Senate Leader Michael Du...
DATE: Jun 21, 2011
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For months now, the call has gone out for Government to cut spending and to reduce the size of the Civil Service.
So when 93 jobs were cut in education last month, this should have come as no surprise.
These are not easy decisions, and Dame Jennife...
DATE: Jun 16, 2011
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Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith was right in one respect when she issued her statement on the school suspension policy last week.
If we teach our children anything, it is that we should abide by the rules and regulations that have been laid d...
DATE: May 17, 2011
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Although the formal dissolution of the United Bermuda Party won’t take place until Tuesday, the UBP effectively shut down this week, and did so not with a bang but a whimper.
In many ways, this is bittersweet, and it would be wrong not to acknowledg...
DATE: May 06, 2011
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A 2007 campaign promise, part of the great giveaway of the Progressive Labour Party platform in that year’s election, was broken yesterday.
The promise was free tuition for full-time Bermuda College students, the thinking being that no one should be ...
DATE: May 05, 2011
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Another weekend, another murder.
The shooting death, almost assassination style, of David Clarke on Sunday night is yet another sign that the violent crime which has afflicted Bermuda for the last 18 months is not over and may be entering a new phas...
DATE: Apr 20, 2011
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