The Berkeley Institute's board of governors has rejected a plan for a fee-paying centre at the school offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) qualification.
Board chairman Calvin White issued a statement yesterday in which he said that the idea...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
From saving for your children's future to putting aside money to enjoy in your retirement - those are just some of the ways in which Argus Financial Limited's (AFL) new senior wealth manager Felicia Rickards will be helping people with their investme...
Education Minister Randy Horton insisted yesterday that graduation rates were not being fudged or inflated before admitting that the 58 percent pass rate claimed for 2006 includes students who took an extra year to complete their Bermuda School Certi...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
The much-maligned Bermuda School Certificate could be scrapped and replaced with an internationally recognised qualification, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Henry Johnson, the Government's new $250,000-a-year education consultant, told this newspaper ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
It was Alma "Champ" Hunt who suggested to June Famous that she join American International, back in 1965. She indeed joined the company on September 14 that year as a clerk/typist. Her pay was 80 Bermuda Pounds a month.
Uppermost in her thinking was ...
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 ...
The first female Mayor of St. George's has been honoured in Canada for her outstanding accomplishments and success.
Lois Perinchief was one of nine alumni to be honoured at Albert College in Belleville, Ontario on September 29 at the school's 150th a...
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...
Readers may be scratching their heads in confusion over the latest graduation figures released by the Ministry of Education as they seem to contradict earlier statements.
Last week's figures claimed an 80 percent pass rate this year, compared to 58 p...
US Consul General Gregory Slayton and Bank of Bermuda CEO Phillip Butterfield have met with a dozen of Bermuda's top business leaders to discuss reforms in the Island's public education system.
In addition to the business leaders, Premier Ewart Brown...
