The Progressive Labour Party has celebrated ten years in power this month, marking the decade since November 9, 1998 with a variety of events.
Any government anywhere that survives for a decade deserves credit; parties do not stay in power this long ...
I am pleased to say as an S4 student at 'The Berkeley Institute' my Citizenship class was invited personally by the Premier to attend the Throne Speech.
The Premier wrote in a letter to our class:
"It seems wise that we should do all that we can here...
The Island's two senior schools will retain their own Board of Governors after a U-turn by the education reform team on cluster boards.
The move will allow the Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy more self-governance, and is a result of Berkel...
A team of Bermudian educators have visited schools across Pennsylvania to learn about alternative learning methods that can be used in Bermuda.
The team included education officer, Dr. Judith Bartley, Cindy Smith, a counsellor at Whitney Institute, D...
Students from around the Island gathered at Bermuda College to compete in the 19th Annual Victoria Cox Memorial Senior and Middle School Debate Tournament.
Sixteen teams of three members each – separated into middle and senior school divisions – cont...
These are hard economic times; there is no doubt about it. Many, if not most Americans – and I trust more than a few Bermudians – are feeling the effects of the downturn in the global economy. But that does not mean we cannot give thanks for what we ...
A parent advocate is going to take the Ministry of Education to court over what he sees as the mishandling of a 15-year-old's future.
Myron Piper of the Bermuda Educational Parents Association has been fighting for months for the rights of a mother a...
Change has been slow in coming — but in a few years Bermuda's students should be producing better results than those in the United States, according to education review chief Professor David Hopkins.
Professor Hopkins said the Ministry of Education h...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
For education consultant Henry Johnson, nothing is more important than the ability of teachers when it comes to improving the performance of students.
And Dr. Johnson believes that the new Island-wide scheme to train teachers and principals — one of ...
DATE: Nov 26, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Many hands make light work especially if they are the Hands of Christ knitting group, which is helping to raise money to build a girls' school in the troubled African state of Sierra Leone.
Under the banner of 'Slippers for Sierra Leone', the ladies ...
