The Opportunity Workshop this week said farewell to a favourite teacher.
During a retirement party for Cynthia Burns, students and teachers of the special education facility paid a farewell tribute to their "mama''.
Mrs. Burns retired after teaching ...
Parents are to be asked to help tackle student hooligans in a Royal Gazette newspaper advert.
The ad, placed by the National Parent Teacher Association, is scheduled to run on Hallowe'en.
And parents are to be asked to volunteer for permanent playgro...
The Reading Clinic yesterday launched a programme to help teachers meet the needs of students with learning difficulties in mathematics.
Entitled "Mathematics and Learning Differences: Professional Development for Educators'', the pilot programme wil...
Bermudian youngsters appear to be brighter than the British average, according to a top English educational psychologist.
And James Stevenson, who practices in London, said they are well above the level needed to score good marks in English national ...
DATE: Oct 28, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
"increase the autonomy and accountability'' of schools.
The appointment of boards to schools was one of the recommendations made by the Education Planning Team during the late '80s.
Recently, Education Minister Jerome Dill introduced representatives ...
rubbished by Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness.
And he said the Progressive Labour Party was long on talk -- but short on concrete solutions.
Mr. Edness hit out after Opposition Leader Jennifer Smith said senior party members were drawing up an ac...
DATE: Oct 27, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Nearing the end of his first year as IBF chairman, managing partner of Ernst & Young, Jan Spiering, is intent on bringing more planning to Bermuda's business and socio-economic development.
The IBF has established three sub-committees to concentrate ...
DATE: Oct 27, 1997 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: David Fox, Business Editor
Parents are going on patrol with Police to crack down on Bermuda's Hallowe'en hooligans.
Education Minister Jerome Dill has thrashed out a plan with national parent-teacher chiefs to send mums and dads onto the streets as party-night peacekeepers.
Th...
violence if her party is elected to Government.
Ms Smith's Progressive Labour Party held a forum on the problems of violent youngsters at their Alaska House headuarters on Court Street.
The meeting on Thursday followed a spate of recent attacks on bu...
recent annual general meeting of The Bermuda Foundation for Insurance Studies, after election by the contributing members to the Foundation.
Catherine Lapsley has recently taken up the position of executive director and coordinator of the Foundation ...
