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GOVERNMENT is set to spend around $70 million on consultancy fees this financial year ¿ an increase of 150 per cent in the past ten years.
The bill, which has ballooned dramatically in the last two years alone, has prompted the Opposition United Ber...
DATE: Oct 28, 2007
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Bermudian Dr. Malcolm Brock is ultra-modest about his rise to the top in medicine — from his studies in the UK to his current career at Johns Hopkins Medicine, in Baltimore.
Last week, Dr. Brock, 43, who hails from Cox's Hill in Pembroke, was on the ...
DATE: Oct 27, 2007
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Young drummers led a procession through the streets of the west end yesterday as a school celebrated its 80th anniversary.
Sandys Secondary Middle School invited two surviving members of its first ever class — Hope Bascome and Miriam Wilson-Trott — t...
DATE: Oct 27, 2007
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The United Bermuda Party will next week unveil a more inclusive approach to helping all Bermudians get ahead at work after labelling Government's bid to focus on black Bermudians as an election ploy.
This week former Cabinet Minister Patrice Minors u...
DATE: Oct 27, 2007
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Current and former students met to honour the oldest living Berkeleyite at the 110th anniversary of the Berkeley Institute.
The school was founded in 1897 and has produced countless leaders in a variety of fields, including four Premiers and hundreds...
DATE: Oct 27, 2007
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Henry Johnson, the man brought in by Government to tackle its self-proclaimed education crisis, has a phrase he litters his conversation with: student learning outcomes.
What the term really means, of course, is results — and right now, as he readily...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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During an academic awards ceremony last night, CedarBridge Academy pupils were urged to use their excellence to encourage their peers and not to be afraid of being challenged intellectually.
Government's newest consultant on education, American Dr. H...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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The world-renowned Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) is teaming up with an Ivy League university to produce the scientists of tomorrow.
BIOS is to offer a Ph.D. programme in partnership with Princeton, recently listed the number one universi...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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The Berkeley Institute's board of governors has rejected a plan for a fee-paying centre at the school offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) qualification.
Board chairman Calvin White issued a statement yesterday in which he said that the idea...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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Education Minister Randy Horton insisted yesterday that graduation rates were not being fudged or inflated before admitting that the 58 percent pass rate claimed for 2006 includes students who took an extra year to complete their Bermuda School Certi...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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