There have been growing concerns among educators and employers, and within the wider community, about students emerging from school having achieved poor standards of literacy and numeracy.
These concerns are justified. In an increasingly technical wo...
Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder (ADD) (ADHD) will end up in the Island's jails unless Government takes steps to cater to their educational needs, parents claimed yesterday.
Two mothers at Juvenile Court said their ADD sons were g...
School security guards were yesterday put through their paces in self-defence and risk management in a move to help prevent acts of violence in Bermuda's classrooms.
Ten security officers from CedarBridge Academy and Berkeley Institute completed two ...
Like her grandmother, mother, and aunts before her, Tina Harris received her general education at the Bermuda High School for Girls (BHS) before completing her studies in the combined Saltus-BHS Senior Year programme. Then it was on to four years at ...
Head teachers at some of Government's middle schools have promised to "keep up the pressure" to ensure that their classrooms do not become solely driven by academic subjects.
They said despite an external report claiming that the middle school curric...
Paediatrician clarifies
August 23, 2002
Dear Sir,
Please allow me to clarify some comments that were stated to be made by myself in today's Royal Gazette. First and foremost, the community should be abundantly reassured by how well the Health Departm...
August 14, 2002
Dear Sir,
"IT'S A DIFFERENT WORLD WITH THE LIGHTS OUT",
This is BELCO's new motto you know,
they sing it to all the poor people
in Spanish Point West of North Shore,
who sit without lights, fans, or fridges,
in heat reaching ninety de...
Bermuda College has lost 50 percent of its freshmen this year due to an extra year in the public school system but the number of non-traditional students is up.
College President Dr. Michael Orenduff said the college has not faced the enrolment defic...
Every day thousands pass by the Temperance Hall on North Shore, Hamilton Parish without recognising the significant contribution the building has made to the community.
Next month Temperance Hall, as well as the Hamilton Parish Temperance Friendly So...
DATE: Aug 27, 2002 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Lawrence Trott
WASHINGTON — So, what’s next?I’ve been wrestling with the question, in one form or another, ever since I decided that the end of this year would be the end of my 39 years as a newspaper columnist.
For years, I’ve had two nightmare scenarios. In the f...
