Phil Butterfield’s impolitic comments about the teachers union gives the feeling that the education imbroglio will get a lot worse before it gets better.
And by decrying that fact that the union’s leader - a gym teacher by background - was deemed an opinion maker, he opens a whole new can of worms.
“That indeed is […]
Tags: Education
The Ministry of Education today announced that graduation rates rose by five percent this year to reach 96 percent. This is up from a dismal 53 percent just four years ago.
The 96 percent rate is based on the number of students entering S4. The rate is 71 percent when based on number of students entering […]
Tags: Education · Transparency
Some encouraging news today. A cross-party parliamentary committee reviewing how educational reform is being implemented in the wake of the Hopkins Report wants to hold its meetings in public, according to its chairman, PLP MP Neletha Butterfield. She said that its members were determined to be “accountable and transparent”.
In June the British House of […]
Tags: Accountability · Education · Transparency
I’m amused that Bermuda’s proto-blogger Phil Wells has completed his 12 step programme of internet detox and has now started writing Letters to the Editor:
Dear Sir,
I was intrigued to read in today’s newspaper (July 10) that the PLP’s free child care will only be available to Bermudian parents with a gross income […]
Tags: Education
Dr. Brown has just announced:
“The Bermuda Government has embarked on a journey to become a financial contributor to the University of the West Indies which would give all Bermudians the opportunity to attend the school at deeply discounted tuition rates.”
I am deeply skeptical about this linkage. It’s more ideology than about educational opportunity, […]
Tags: Education
If you like Oprah, you’ve probably seen the Ministry of Education’s ad for the PRISM project to reform the island’s ailing public education system.
That would be the ad with the word “Excercise” floating around the screen in big letters.
And therein lies the problem.
Tags: Education
