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Students from around the Island gathered at Bermuda College to compete in the 19th Annual Victoria Cox Memorial Senior and Middle School Debate Tournament.
Sixteen teams of three members each – separated into middle and senior school divisions – cont...
DATE: Nov 27, 2008
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A parent advocate is going to take the Ministry of Education to court over what he sees as the mishandling of a 15-year-old's future.
Myron Piper of the Bermuda Educational Parents Association has been fighting for months for the rights of a mother a...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Change has been slow in coming — but in a few years Bermuda's students should be producing better results than those in the United States, according to education review chief Professor David Hopkins.
Professor Hopkins said the Ministry of Education h...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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For education consultant Henry Johnson, nothing is more important than the ability of teachers when it comes to improving the performance of students.
And Dr. Johnson believes that the new Island-wide scheme to train teachers and principals — one of ...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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If education reform goes according to plan, this is what bosses say the public can expect in five years' time:
A primary school student in 2013 will leave with:
• international standards in literacy and numeracy;
• a clear induction into Bermudian cu...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008
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Schools reform leader Philip Butterfield yesterday expressed his regret over his controversial remarks about Bermuda Union of Teachers boss Mike Charles.
Mr. Butterfield said he believes Mr. Charles and union president Keisha Douglas are committed ed...
DATE: Nov 25, 2008
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A 15-year-old boy is shadowing the Government's IT department for two hours a day rather than go to school, three months after he was told he could not return to CedarBridge.
And his mother, who asked for both of their identities not to be revealed f...
DATE: Nov 25, 2008
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Bullying in Bermuda's schools is leading to teenage gangs and graduating into serious social unrest, not high school diplomas.
This according to a long-serving Ministry of Education staff who does not wish to be named for fear of his job, but said he...
DATE: Nov 24, 2008
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Schools reform boss Philip Butterfield has rejected calls for his resignation and insisted: "There's no quit in me."
Mr. Butterfield said he would not walk away from his post as chairman of the interim education board until he is satisfied all studen...
DATE: Nov 24, 2008
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Reading was top of the agenda for students across the Island this week as they celebrated International Literacy Day.
Education Minister El James paid a visit to Purvis Primary School to learn about pupils' progress, while members of Bermuda Reading ...
DATE: Nov 24, 2008
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