Warwick Academy graduate Erin Vickers has won the 2008 RenaissanceRe Scholarship Award
Erin plans to study law at Bristol University in the UK, was selected from approximately 80 applicants.
Neill A. Currie, president and chief executive officer of R...
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What is more important? The material educators have to teach or a child's ability to learn it?
The question met with an embarrassing silence when posed by reading and learning ecologist Dr. David Boulton during the Neuroscienc...
Poor attitude, and lazy are just some of the labels that children with developmental coordination disorder are frequently given.
Cheryl Chia, a paediatric physiotherapist from Singapore was in Bermuda to speak about the disorder at the BerCon 3rd Atl...
A Commissioner of Education is to be appointed to lead a re-organised Ministry of Education and draft a strategy for the public school system.
The Education Amendment Act 2008 — tabled in the House of Assembly on Friday — sets out the responsibilitie...
DATE: Jul 01, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Breeding gossip well
June 23, 2008
Dear Sir,
THE RUMOUR MILL
Our Bermuda she is a beautiful land
Her sweet smallness breeds gossip well
We tell stories of one another's mistakes
How the populace drinks in the love affairs
Stares in the street brings ...
Five hundred years ago most people did not know how to read English. It wasn't necessary for them to live.
Reading expert Dr. David Boulton, who presented last week at the Neuroscience in Education Conference, said in the 1500s less than 5,000 people...
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The last thing Bob Lennox expected as he neared the end of his long career in education was to be headhunted for a job in a country he'd never visited; less still to begin learning to speak Turkish as he approached his 60th birthday.
But that's...
2008 has brought about a number of new tax laws as well as changes in existing laws. Some of the major changes that impact expatriates are as follows.
Rollovers to a Roth IRA
If you are participating in a company pension plan or have made deductible ...
Education Minister Randy Horton has praised a group of Bermudians who have successfully completed the Bermuda Teacher Induction Programme.
Mr. Horton recently told the House of Assembly that 25 teachers had recently graduated from the two-year scheme...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Whitney Institute Middle School will remain open after all, it was announced last night.
Following weeks of arguing during which the school's registration seemed likely to be withdrawn, the Ministry of Education and the Whitney Educational Trust fina...
DATE: Jun 30, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith