4263 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Opinion"
Bloomberg — It's nice to be wanted, especially when applying for college aid.
As a National Merit finalist, Joelle Kaplan from East Cobb, Georgia, was heavily recruited as soon as her high test scores were received by colleges.
When it was time to ma...
DATE: Oct 30, 2007
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A deliberate ploy
October 25
Dear Sir,
I have finally figured it out. The reason that education is where it is today is because the PLP Government had every intention of putting it there and has every intention of keeping it there.
Why? So that when ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2007
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Doing the math
October 22, 2007
Dear Sir,
This is a letter to Education Minister Randy Horton which was copied to The Royal Gazette.
Dear Sir,
The following is an open letter which I have posted on my blog (www.21square.com) and copied to both The Ro...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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We are going backwards
October 22, 2007
Dear Sir,
In 1950 under the South African apartheid regime, legislation was passed for the registration of the population. The Population Registration Act meant that all South Africans were to be classified in ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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On the face of it, the jump in graduation rates from Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy is very good news.
For the record, the 22 percentage point increase from a 58 percent graduation rate in 2006 to 80 percent in 2007 (not 30 percent as rep...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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Is it okay to seek revenge?
October 16, 2007
Dear Sir,
I would like to share with you my interesting drive home yesterday from work. As I drove along the beautiful South Shore Road, I became excited, confused, depressed, confused again, had a revelat...
DATE: Oct 23, 2007
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The Royal Gazette sent some questions to Community and Cultural Affairs Minister Wayne Perinchief about the proposed Workforce Equity Act. Here are his responses.
How can business get more black Bermudians when there are 10,000 more jobs than people ...
DATE: Oct 19, 2007
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Government's legal initiatives for narrowing the gap between white and black attainment in Bermuda are well intentioned, but poorly thought out.
Premier Ewart Brown's "Goodwill Plus" initiative has probably been criticised more because he did such a...
DATE: Oct 15, 2007
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Shameful and shortsighted
October 10, 2007
Dear Sir,
Returning to Bermuda after some years, I was saddened to find out that the Bermuda Government remains as small-minded as ever.
While almost every city in the world has special rates for all Senior ...
DATE: Oct 12, 2007
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Outgoing Governor Sir John Vereker discussed perhaps the two crucial challenges for Bermuda in his farewell speech this week.
One rightly concerned race and the community's continuing struggle to come to terms with the legacy of slavery and segregati...
DATE: Oct 11, 2007
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