Bermuda College bosses yesterday launched a mole hunt after shock claims that student numbers had seriously slumped. Meanwhile, under-fire college academic vice-president Donald Peters is understood to have launched a witch-hunt to track down the sou...
practices are adhered to in the workplace, requires additional staff to be taken on.
Executive Director of the Commission for Unity and Racial Equality (CURE), Sharol Simmons, noted that a new post of Education Officer has been authorised to assist w...
vice-president Donald Peters to be fired after he branded a colleague a racist in a row over a revamp of the administrative structure.
One said: "It's racist, it's a violation of human rights, it's inflammatory and unprofessional.
"Many people in the...
DATE: Sep 10, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
warned.
Julia Beach, of the Adult Education School, told The Royal Gazette she believes the problem is on the rise and has called for a back-to-basics approach in Bermuda's schools.
"There don't seem to be any statistics, but it's one in six people i...
The poor quality of education in Bermuda has been blamed for standing in the way of the Island becoming a world centre for reinsurance and insurance markets. The claims were made by Don Watson, Director of Reinsurance at Standard and Poor's, while at...
To stroll around the sunlit gallery, reading the poems and other expressions of anguish, pain and sorrow, seeing the lines of T-shirts with their poignant messages, and noting the symbolic bowl of tears brings home the issue of physical abuse and vio...
in making Bermudians computer literate.
Under a year-old initiative funded by locally based XL Capital, the XL Education Initiative has trained ten teachers in the public school system to instruct young people in all aspects of computer programming, ...
DATE: Sep 09, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Burgess
that poor levels of literacy will create a long term decline for Bermuda.
As the world's economies increasingly depend on access to information in order to be competitive, so literacy and having a well educated and motivated workforce will be key ele...
recently-formed Trade Union Congress, sparking rumours that they fear the new Caribbean body could be a rival power base.
George De Peana, the general secretary of the Caribbean Congress of Labour, had flown in to persuade them, but talks collapsed a...
still be hunting for strays of a different sort.
Government has appointed Mr. Simons as the top truant officer.
The Royal Gazette has learned he is leaving the post of dog warden in the Agriculture and Fisheries Department to join the Education Minis...
DATE: Sep 08, 1999 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Patrick Burgess
