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Government should concentrate on school failures rather than the success stories, Opposition leader Jennifer Smith said yesterday.
Ms Smith -- who doubles up as Progressive Labour Party Shadow Education Minister -- said an initiative from Education M...
DATE: Jun 11, 1998
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Tim Smith, to cut-down on truancy in Bermuda's public schools. It must have been a shock for the public to learn from this newspaper yesterday that CedarBridge Academy could have a day when truancy was as high as 40 percent.
Clearly a school cannot f...
DATE: Jun 11, 1998
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a tie for the all-time low of 1.8 percent.
The consumer price index has averaged around two percent for the last year.
The recent decline occurred as a result of the world's declining oil prices, which pushed the fuel & power sector down for the mont...
DATE: Jun 11, 1998
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An American college is working on developing a strategy to enhance Bermuda's workforce.
And two of its officials are visiting the Island this week to research the Island's needs.
After speaking with politicians, business people, educators and student...
DATE: Jun 11, 1998
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Government will pay full Bermuda College tuition for all public secondary school students who maintain a 95 percent attendance record.
Education Minister Tim Smith revealed this yesterday as a part new initiatives to curb school absenteeism.
Backing ...
DATE: Jun 10, 1998
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young tearaways: "The Net is closing in!'' Community officers surfed the Internet and found a US Police project which taught young people how to resist the pressures of gangs.
Now Police have joined forces with the Ministries of Education and Home A...
DATE: Jun 09, 1998
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Secondary School Certificate exams.
And while that number represents just under 65 percent of the students who took the exams, principal Ernest Payette told The Royal Gazette he viewed the results as positive.
Noting that there was a wide range of gr...
DATE: Jun 09, 1998
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By the turn of the century, Government expects to have spent $165 million on the upgrading of public school buildings.
A total of $72 million of that amount has already been spent on CedarBridge, the Island's first senior secondary school.
An additio...
DATE: Jun 08, 1998
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trouble thinking that this is one of the most terrible places on earth where the great majority of the people are poor, deprived, uneducated, badly housed, badly treated and generally miserable. The truth is quite the opposite but you would never kno...
DATE: Jun 06, 1998
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Sex offenders, particularly paedophiles, could receive a letter before their release, banning them from schools.
Education Minister Tim Smith revealed this yesterday to The Royal Gazette .
"The safety and security of our children is absolutely impera...
DATE: Jun 04, 1998
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