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Bermuda has appointed a leading Canadian educator to develop plans to improve teaching.
Avis Glaze, an advisor to the Premier of Ontario, is to help put together a strategy highlighting “instructional leadership”, Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smi...
DATE: Sep 16, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermudian student Samuel Hewitt has won a $25,000 scholarship from law firm Trott and Duncan to help fulfil his ambition to become a lawyer.
Mr Hewitt, 18, from Sandys, will head to Cardiff in Wales on Monday, where he will study for a LLB law degree...
DATE: Sep 16, 2011
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Education
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A pilot programme aimed at helping students launched yesterday afternoon at Victor Scott Primary School.
The Homework Buddy Programme was organised by David Bascome’s Hope4Life Foundation and funded by Gibbons Company.
It will allow teaching staff to...
DATE: Sep 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith Monday welcomed Warwick Academy students back to school, with the message: Learn as much as you can including the subjects that aren’t required.
Reminiscing on her career as an artist, Dame Jennifer added: “I ha...
DATE: Sep 14, 2011
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Education
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Bermuda’s first and only performing arts preschool, Building Blocks Academy is growing fast, according to owner Tory Darrell.
Mr Darrell, the former coordinator for the Mirrors Programme, told the Hamilton Rotary Club yesterday that the unique school...
DATE: Sep 14, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Saltus yesterday remembered the lives of two former students who died in the World Trade Center attack ten years ago.
Boyd Gatton and Robert Higley were among the thousands killed in the September 11, 2001 attack in New York.
Brian Patterson, a forme...
DATE: Sep 13, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Four Bermudians studying landscape architecture or environmental science have received scholarships from the Garden Club.
They are:
Racael Antonition, who is studying for a Bachelor of Science (Honors) Degree in Landscape Architecture at Kingston Uni...
DATE: Sep 13, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Environment
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Cabinet Minister Neletha Butterfield, Speaker Stanley Lowe, Deputy Speaker Randy Horton and backbenchers Ashfield DeVent, Wayne Furbert, Dennis Lister and Darius Tucker all face challenges at Progressive Labour Party primaries this month.
Contests ar...
DATE: Sep 13, 2011
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Parents will be given advice on building strong families at a series of events later this month.
The Parenting Tool Kit Symposium will feature themes: How To Instill Values and Spirituality, Surviving The Teenage Age Years, Boys And Identity, Parenti...
DATE: Sep 13, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Bermuda will soon begin ”the great debate” on the issue of the economy and jobs, according to Economy Minister Kim Wilson.
In a recent address to the Sandys Rotary Club, Senator Wilson said a public discussion, involving both the international busine...
DATE: Sep 12, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
