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Shadow Education Minister Grant Gibbons agrees with schools meeting informally on a regular basis but says the cluster board concept is concerning.
Cluster boards were recommended in the Hopkins Report and Government re-advertised for three assistant...
DATE: Aug 22, 2009
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Opposition Leader Kim Swan told Rotarians the United Bermuda Party knows it's a long road back convincing the public it is a viable option.
But Mr. Swan said he still believes his party can rise from the ashes of its demoralising 2007 General Electio...
DATE: Aug 22, 2009
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In 1997, a man with a vision took a group of young black Bermudian men to Hunstville, Alabama.
There they were enrolled in Drake State Technical College to pursue various technical careers and now 12 years later, all of them have degrees, certificati...
DATE: Aug 22, 2009
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A children's health specialist has warned that preventing middle school students who failed a new transfer exam from moving up to senior school could seriously jeopardise their education.
Paediatrician Bente Lundh told The Royal Gazette that the Mini...
DATE: Aug 20, 2009
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Positions for three assistant directors of cluster boards have been re-advertised eight months after the posts were originally created and publicised.
But the number of posts appears to contradict Government's original plans which were for six cluste...
DATE: Aug 20, 2009
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These are the questions we asked the Ministry of Education about the transfer exam — and didn't get answers on:
• How many students sat the test on April 17?
• How many passed?
• How many students sat the test in June?
• How many passed?
• How many...
DATE: Aug 20, 2009
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Govt. backs Caricom's fight against UK departure tax increase
Bermuda is supporting efforts by the Caribbean Tourism Organisation's to lobby against a UK tax which would see a family of four pay more than $900 in duty just to come to the region on ho...
DATE: Aug 19, 2009
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Elvin James' return as Education Minister has won the backing of Board of Education member and Government MP Ashfield DeVent.
Mr. DeVent said Mr. James' monthlong absence from the job — in the aftermath of the Minister's public call for Premier Ewart...
DATE: Aug 19, 2009
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El James was reappointed Education Minister yesterday little more than a month after he lost the Cabinet post for publicly calling on the Premier to resign.
Mr. James was sworn-in by Governor Sir Richard Gozney at a 9 a.m. ceremony at Government Hou...
DATE: Aug 18, 2009
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With her anger running out of control Jewel Nelson was a violent teenager fighting constantly.
Her behaviour saw her suspended numerous times from CedarBridge Academy where she was failing. But thanks to the intervention of the Mirrors programme she ...
DATE: Aug 18, 2009
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