March 12, 2012
Dear Sir,
The topic of unqualified teachers in the classroom has become something of a political football in recent weeks, and I would like to put the matter in perspective. As last year’s Deputy Chair and this year’s Chair of Bermuda ...
DATE: Mar 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Parliamentarians last night approved a bill allowing Government to withhold its contributions into the civil servants pension fund for a period of one year.
The measure frees up $31 million to be applied to the Government’s spending needs during the ...
Education, education, education. First, there is no excuse for not learning today. And, I am not apologising for this statement, either. If you have the will and the interest, and whether you liked or disliked formal schooling, the World Wide Web is ...
Four school Principals who will be moved to different schools were today named.
* Judith Alexander will move from Purvis Primary School to Victor Scott Primary School;
* Francine McMahon will move from TN Tatem Middle School to Purvis Primary School;...
Bermudian educator Phyllis Brooks, who earlier this year received the Harriet Tubman Award for community service, has died at the age of 86.
Mrs Brooks (originally Simmons) studied at the Berkeley Institute before earning a scholarship to the Univers...
DATE: Mar 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
So I'm done with xenophobia. It's passé. Played out. Moving now to education. I've often said that education is the solution to most of the problems we have in our society. Statistics show that the higher one's education level the less likely they ar...
Four school principals will switch schools as part of a plan to “share expertise” across the system, Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith announced yesterday.
Dame Jennifer said principals’ individual strengths would be matched to the schools they ...
DATE: Mar 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
As his former girlfriend faces abduction charges in the US, thankful father Giovanni Burrows said his son is happy to be back home.
The 14-year-old, returned to the Island a month ago and enrolled in school, has spent “two thirds of his life runnin...
DATE: Mar 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
March 3, 2012
Dear Sir,
I don’t know very many of the Progressive Labour Party MPs personally, but I’m sure most are decent people who, at some point, thought that they’d be able to handle the governing of Bermuda. And that may have been the case if ...
DATE: Mar 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Many people brought in their science projects to the science fair at Purvis Primary in the Jessie Purvis Assembly Hall on February 28.
Children were asked questions, and they replied and showed how their project was made and what the projects was ma...
