Legislation to make parents legally responsible for the actions of their children will have the desired affect on school behaviour, it was claimed last night.
Robin Richardson, chairman of CedarBridge Academy's Parent Teacher Student Association (PTS...
The teachers' decision to go back to work today was the right one; the shame is it took so long.
Certainly, there can be no doubt about the depth of teachers' unhappiness with current pay levels, even if there are many who feel the point was well mad...
On the Internet, there are countless web sites that offer advice on building self-esteem. One of them, geared to school-age children, says the reason self-esteem is important is that having it makes for a confident person, one with the courage to say...
Home school teachers have welcomed plans by Government to introduce legislation to govern health and safety of the alternative schools.
They said last night that they had always been in favour of the Education Ministry putting new guidelines in place...
Striking teachers voted to go back to work and then marched on Parliament yesterday to show their frustration at low pay.
Their change of heart after five days of empty schools staved off a possible injunction which could have seen teachers arrested ...
The following is the full text of the Speech from the Throne delivered yesterday by Governor Sir John Vereker:
Mr. President and Members of the Senate,
Mr. Speaker and Members of the Honourable House of Assembly,
"With all [our blessings, what more i...
Yesterday's Throne Speech opened with a quotation from Thomas Jefferson.
There's nothing wrong with that: The Founding Father who draughted the United States Constitution and laid the foundations for the young nation is often quoted by those who wish...
Would you believe that in a study of 1,000 affluent US individuals (The Millionaire Mind, Dr. Thomas J Stanley, PhD), 733 had attained millionaire status, while the rest only appeared wealthy? Further, these millionaires by and far had not graduated ...
Education was the top priority yesterday in the final Throne Speech before the next general election.
But the speech also unveiled new measures to update labour legislation, expand an annual workplace survey to include gender and nationality and incr...
"We were good friends. He was a good soldier and missed very few battles. He was always up there with us. He never shirked. A fellow you could depend on".
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This is how Graham Madeiros describes his World War II comrade, Elliott Aubrey.
It i...
