PLP: “Govt. Should Rethink Scholarship Funding”
“We at the Progressive Labour Party call on the Minister of Education Dr. Grant Gibbons to seriously rethink the low level of funding provided for student scholarships in this year’s budget,” Shadow Education Minister Walton Brown said today.
“Over the past two years, funding for students in need has dropped dramatically, from $760,000 in 2012 to a meager $40,000 today.
“With the cost of education in most places at not less than $20,000 per year this small sum can likely only fund two students.
“These cuts will result in fewer students being able to pursue their studies overseas and it will place greater strain on parents already struggling with the high cost of educating their children.
Mr. Brown added, “This low funding level is inconsistent with the OBA Government’s stated commitment to help our young people; this funding cut has been far more severe than other areas and it has taken place while there has been questionable increases in other areas, such as the Bermuda office in Washington, D.C.”
After spending all our money over 14 years and making us broke, PLP seems bent on moaning and complaining every time Government tries to save money.
PLP: there is no easy way out of this mess you put us in, and complaining will do nothing.
The only thing that could possibly be worse about our currect situation, is if you incompetents somehow got back in power.
Be part of the solution or be gone PLP.
Anyone else think that the PLP are using this site like twitter.
It is slowly becoming a soapbox for instant point picking and propaganda.
Quite sick of it. We are all being taken for a ride.
“EDUCATION IS KEY IN ANY DEVELOPED COUNTRY”
An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a country. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to lead in the future.
One of the essential functions of a government is to ensure that its people have the opportunity and access to further education. It is therefore imperative that the government take the lead to ensure that a suitable educational opportunities be provided for all its citizens.
The proper role of government in education is the provision of education. Despite this, all governments owe certain duties and responsibilities to the citizens. One way in which a country’s overall developed is gauged is by the level of educational development within that country. Lower educational levels within a country suggest a lack of development and growth for the betterment of that country.
Bermuda must always seek to ensure that its citizen whom can not have access to higher education, should be given some form of assistance to ensure that our young people do not fall off on the way side. This is not a issue that should be debated in a silly fashion, but one that has serious ramification for the long-term impact upon Bermuda.
Young people often lose their aspirations and goals, merely because they do not have the monies to further their skills. This should not be allowed, and everything must be done to give these young people an opportunity to succeed.
I push the government to reconsider this matter as well.
It is possible that monies can be gain right with in the Ministry of Education, if they would reduce the size of the Department of Education Administrators and Officers, and put that money where it counts, in the education of our young people. How many officers do you need to run a small educational system such as Bermuda?
But on a serious note, A government must take the responsibility of education its people very serious. the education of its young people Is key to the development of the country in the long run. This can not be dismissed with silly debate that reduces the seriousness of the matter down to zero.
This issue is about Bermuda’s future, and we must look at it from that perspective.
maybe folks will now begin to value in Bermuda College
Oh Lord, I thought she was gone.
This must one of the few times Betty I can agree with you’
Money has to be cut from here and there but I can’t agree with cutting funds from the Education of our young people.
It is Bermuda’s future that were talking about here.
Here here! Batty Tramp…I and countless others will agree 100% with what you’ve written.
OBA doesn’t care about scholarship funding because most of their supporters can afford boarding schools and higher education. I don’t believe Government should be the primary funder of education costs but I think their funding should cover in excess of 2 students.
So what was the point of your first statement?
Evidence of this?
Or are you just pushing the whole “The OBA is majority rich white folks” nonsense?
Come on. You make it impossible to have your back when you post hateful stuff like this.
Do better.
“OBA doesn’t care about scholarship funding because most of their supporters can afford boarding schools and higher education. I don’t believe Government should be the primary funder of education costs but I think their funding should cover in excess of 2 students”
No where in Watching’s post was their mention of “The OBA is majority rich white folks”
You just made up an argument out of nothing.
STOP trolling Mike Hinds with your racist mind.
Says the troll who only pops in when he thinks he’s got a “gotcha” moment he can spin into a personal attack.
Take your own advice, troll.
I wasn’t quoting him. I was referencing the message that demagogues and your ilk – that is: folks not smart enough to be demagogues – keep pushing about the OBA.
On this day alone, we’ve got a post about “what they think” and “Sylvan is a pawn” and “This is what you get when rich people make decisions”. It’s not hard to extrapolate.
I notice that you don’t actually address my point.
Par for the course with you, innit?
You’re a joke. Go hide beneath your rock again until you see another chance to try your ridiculous tactics.
It does. Government gives out up to 8 generous scholarships every year. Brown is quoting the amount for solely needs-based grants and trying to make it sound like that’s the entirety of our scholarship funding.
Spin doctor at work.
Trained well by a former premier.
O’Brien it is clear you do not know the differences between “SCHOLARSHIPS”, GRANTS, and Student loans. Please do some reading and get schooled up before commenting. There is a variety.
ALso may be if the OBAubp was not so busy making the Department bigger with so many Officers, that money could be put else where…like ensuring the education of our children. the next generation to lead Bermuda… REALLY
I love this.
And if they didn’t, “Bettty” would be screaming like a crazy person about how important jobs are and why aren’t they hiring anyone in the Department.
You can’t win with a demagogue.
You’re a joke, “Bettty”
There was not need to increase the size of CS, that was the words of the OBAubp, there was a pushed to decrease it. So far it looks like they have fallen back on their promise. The size of Education was big enough, now an increase for an education system as small as our is unacceptable. I been told that the size is almost double now at the department of education, more Officers than teachers….Really….Get real Mike, instead of defending your beloved party all the day long.
Looks like that money for scholarships may have been redirected to more Officers.
There is a point that some seem to overlook, it’s this fact, we have a college that is suffice in helping many that wish to excel in their studies accessible right here on the Island
You, Watching, don’t know what your talking about. Are you kidding? Most of their supporters can afford boarding schools, what a very false and broad statement to make. Just how do you know that anyway? Do you have information that we should know about? Because I know many people who voted for the OBA and guess what, they are unemployed today. So don’t make statements that are untrue, OK? Walton Brown is a goofball. How in the heck does he expect to get more money for scholarships? Maybe he needs to come up with a solution, because all he talks is nonsense. He does not understand business at all. Close the Washington office??? Are you kidding Mr. Brown? Do you know who lives there? Right, say no more.
First thing spoken by Mr Brown that makes sense.
How does this make sense? Our current government has no money because the former government sucked our accounts dry.
This is what happens when rich people make decisions. They have no concept of how us middle class or low income people live.
Boo hoo.
This is what happens when a Party with no understanding of finances spends all the money during their reign
How about the UNION cough up that 7,000,000 for the Berkley Performance bond and we can give it all out in scholarships !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Labour don’t like education?
It was slightly in excess of $14 million with interest by the time the courts ruled on the matter. With interest it should be close to $20 million today.
I’d be happy with the 7.
what an ASSININE and STUPID comment Blame everyone but yourself. and I ain’t rich but work for my money so one day maybe.
The future Bermy needs educated people, true enough
Agree. It always surprises me that education/scholarships are not higher up on the priority list on both sides of the divided. It makes no sense.
As a current student, funding is a major part of persuing further education, and I believe the budget for government scholarships should be revised.
Uneducated folk they love.. Easier to manipulate.. That 40g is an insult, may as well closed the whole funding down. Proven statistic that educated folk do better and their children do also.
Proof is in the putting- OBA don’t think to much of the putting obviously
*Pudding
…and “The proof of the puDDing is in the eating.”
Makes more sense now, doesn’t it?
Of course uneducated folks are easy to manipulate. They voted PLP in three times. Can’t get much more uneducated than that!
@BATTY TRAMP.
Thanks of loving my name BATTY TRAMP that you attempt to make one similar to me…shows how much you OBAUbp diehards love me so much. But you need to watch your remarks, and be sure to support them with hard FACTS, rather than FICTION only.
But lets clear it up for a change:
So not attempt to insult folks whom voted PLP, after all you have never changed your vote in more than 30 years.
It is PLP folks whom tend to often change their votes. This suggest they vote based upon issues, and platform information.
The data shows that OBAubp voters have voted in one direction for more than over 40 years. Go read the election data, before you make such negative decretory statement. SO if you going call anyone uneducated, I think it should be the person you see when you look in the mirror.
Uneducated applies to a group of folks whom have never changed their votes and never will regardless it their party is right or wrong. We saw this with the UBP, now the OBAubp. Yet the UBPoba fail to show TRANSPARENCY AND HONESTY.
nothing in here is correct.
Look carefully at Election data, it show clearly that UBP voters have voted in one direction for Years. The higher percentage of those votes are white voters. These folks do not change their vote. It is the black voter whom has voted PLP, whom have changed their votes from one party to another. The swing voter for the most part tend to be PLP voter and often black. SO Mike do some reading it might help you.
Or, you could stop spinning.
You can’t ignore the fact that the PLP has ACTIVELY, through both representatives and supporters, run an anti-white campaign, letting folks know, in no uncertain terms, that they are not interested in the “White Vote”.
Now, given a distinct lack of choice, what else can they do? The NLP received a number of white votes, if you recall, so your point is, as always, incorrect. When given something that even remotely resembles an option, white folks will change their votes.
Take the blinders off, “Bettty”. You’re wrong.
So have the PLP, so be quiet Betty.
There should also be a stipulation that they RETURN to Bermuda for so many years to work too as the required by the NTB students! I am tired of seeing scholarships, bursaries & awards granted to students whom have never come back home once they have achieved their degrees! For example, if they are given a two year scholarship, they should come back for two years to work within a five year time period (allowing for experience abroad or a further degree) after they have received their degree & if not then they should reimburse the Award giver be it Government, Private Business or Charity the full award . . . Treat them like loans as the recipients are the only ones benefitting NOT Bermuda!
and if there are no jobs here in their field what do you suggest they do?
That’s not true, there are stipulations, go read them. Those students whom do not come back home usually are on scholarships. The regulations regarding scholarships vs. loans and other rewards differ. They have a student loan or grant instead. But most students always return and do their time, based upon their contract or agreement. It is not the same for all, depending upon the type of reward granted to them. There is a signed agreement which they are held too. Get your fact correct. please.
I should say AWARD, not reward…. it depends upon what type they have the stipulations are clearly spelled out, and differs depending on what one they have been granted.
We are all taxpayers (all of us)…the well has run dry brother…you of all people should know that!
What kind of message is this government sending to the young people in this country? Hey Minister Fahy, you better put on some more of those two week “Custodial Technician” training classes. Looks like we’re gonna need them!
This really shows how serious the OBA government is about education…..not very serious at all!
I think the message is: “we ain’t got no money!”
Government got money, just selective on where they want to spent it… read the budget book carefully and see where they increased the budget in some areas, and made huge cuts in others…looks more like WHAT IS THE PRIORTIY TO THE OBAubp government. Also look at how large they have now made the Department of Education. Increase officers, like we need it. Really ….Young people should always come first, they are our future.
And here’s the entire problem. Right here.
This message from the demagogues working for the PLP, spreading misinformation and lies.
I’d go through your post and show where you’re wrong, but it’d be a waste of time, Bettty “Blindfaithful” Trump.
We deserve better than the likes of you guys.
Mike, I do not have to make anything up, if you take sometime out to read the budget on education, you might also gain some real facts, rather than defend the OBAubp regardless if right or wrong. I only write what is clearly outlined in the Budget book. READ IT and you can see where monies are put on some area, while cut back in others. The reality is it seems to based upon where government puts their Priority. Education seems not to be one on the list, in terms of scholarships and Awards.
Name calling is one of the “Weakest forms of Debate,” It suggest that your opponent has nothing worthy to say to support his position. By the looks of it you seldom do add much value to the debate, thus the attempt to discredit me with name calling…REALLY …. sounds like your MP Slyvan Richards…familiar….yeah…
More lies and hypocrisy from “Bettty”.
“The Government has money” Lie #1
I am not, nor do I, defend the OBA. Lie #2
And YOU denouncing ME for namecalling is ridiculous.
All you ever do is namecall. “Blindfaithful” “OBAubp” and… well… everything you ever write.
You’re ridiculous. Come on.
Try an ounce of honesty.
“MY Sylvan Richards”? What makes him mine?
Oh, your usual lie of accusing me of being OBA.
You’re a joke.
Laughing non stop, your so funny Mike…lol
It speake volumes when a government cuts scholarship funding to the bare bones but increases financial assistance by millions!
Where? To whom?
@ Mike
If we don’t have any money for education, why did we send $50,000 to the Philippines?
I know we have funds for that on the side, but $40k is less than what we sent overseas.
Also, I speak on this subject, because I recieved scholarship money when I was studying abroad. Without this money, I would not have been able to finish.
I say cut the free ferry, free day care, and free buses. Even if seniors and kids pay a dollar, it’s something. I grew up paying for the bus, so I don’t see a problem with people paying today.
@independent: If OBA cuts free ferries, free day care, free buses the PLP will moan and complain that its the ‘grass roots’ (which really means black) Bermudians that OBA doesn’t care about. They’ll further say that they don’t want to bring race into it (even though they just did) but that it is a certain kind of Bermudian (meaning blacks) the OBA couldn’t care less about – while rich people (meaning whites) are all doing fine. They will perpetuate the myth yet again that OBA supporters (meaning whites) are all rich – were born rich, will always be rich. While ‘grass roots’ Bermudians (meaning blacks again) are all poor.
It is called PLP politics.
Play the race care, yet call others racist REALLY… I see you love me so much you where not creative enough to come up with a name that reflected whom you really are…
But on another serious note… there is money….please study the Budget Book, OBAUbp made huge cuts in some government departments while increasing others.
It comes down to their Priority of what they want to keep, and what they want to cut. Looks like our young people where not important enough.
Look at Education Budget alone. Look at the increase in the size of the staff at the Department of Education alone. This is money that could have been spent on our children’s education, but no, rather it is spent on creating more Officers post at the Ministry of Education. Look at what your paying the Commissioner of Education and now an Asst Commissioner.. Which is not needed or required.
The Hopkins report indicated the ministry is too large, but now it is twice as Big again. REALLY. READ THE BUDGET, but study it carefully and you will find the loopholes and increases of monies in some areas where it is not needed or required. Instead of throwing around silly OBAubp words, based it upon some real FACTS for a change. Reading is great !!!
“…why did we send $50,000 to the Philippines?”
Because they needed it, we’re Bermudians and that’s what we do. Help when we can.
And read all the other posts for the rest.
That’s not an answer to my question, though.
Sending $50k to the Philipenes when they desperately needed it is not the same as “increas[ing] financial assistance by millions”…
So did the Caribbean, did the government send them any…NO
What are you talking about? When?
Get your facts straight. Philippines is a massive country in which only one island got severely damaged. The rest of the country is still intact & generates a revenue that is far more than Bermuda has ever had. When Louisiana got hit no one said America needed help they were factual & said Louisiana needed help. Yes, Tacloban needed help & still does despite the billions that have been sent globally. President Benigno Aquino keeps playing the denial & blame game while relief funds keep pouring in & where do you think the relief funds go to. You delusions must be getting worse if you think those funds go directly to Tacloban where they’re needed the most. We would have better helped if we sent the regiment down there to directly help those affected instead of money that was burrowed in the first place. Devastation happens everyday all over the world & we are not the ones who can help financially when we can’t even help ourselves. That 50K was a PR stunt that will make us look bias in the future when more places get hit because of the inevitable effects humans have cause by scaring our planet. If those effects come towards this tiny island the great Anunnaki best spaceship us away because I guarantee President Benigno Aquino wont be sending a cent of his natural resource money our way especially when he doesn’t even give it to his own.
And now, you’re attributing to me things that I didn’t say.
Well done.
You’re quite something, aren’t you?
Call me when you’re ready to try honesty.
I have to agree with Walton and I’m thankful for the constructive nature of the comment. Rather than just bashing the OBA he has offered a solution.
We should be focusing more on education rather than having an office in Washington DC that we really don’t need. I think we have one in London too. Both should be closed if the funds could go to help education.
Why doesn’t he get brother Chris to pay the 7million performance bond they own the government?????
Plenty of scholarships in that. that is an even better solution…more money than Brown’s suggestion and he gets paid …SMH
Propaganda.
Wonder who will be next.
Roban
Brown
?
See my comments elsewhere.
Have a quiz in your brain and see if you can’t think what the next garbage will be from the Pee L Pee.
Anarchy not far off whilst they still get paid by the people.
Dislikes welcome.
Mr. Brown is correct did anyone see the Picture with the last Education Minister in the Press and who was around him when scholarships were given out . It certainly did not do well for the OBA or did it.
And what years was that ‘Teed’.
Last Year
Who was around him?
Do elucidate?
Unfortunately (well fortunately really lol) we can’t print money so if funding is to increase something has to decrease. I for one would rather see money put towards education scholarships than:
The Bermuda regiment
Small business development (educated population does not need the boost)
Post Offices – LOL mail
Rural parks maintenance – easily done in the private sector
Just a few ideas myself and personal preferences but on this topic I agree with the opposition, scholarships need to be increased to get some of these young people off the island to realize Bermuda really is another world (reality check).
The Bermuda scholarship fund was given to Beyonce for one nights work.
Whats the bets that Walton was up there in the VIP booth watching, & most likely did not pay?
Keep in mind the PLP / BIU wasted all of our money. That’s why things are like they are. We have nothing, thanks to the PLP / BIU. Brown, ask your namesake where it all went.
I think the point is being missed. If education is key to the future of Bermuda, how can we afford to reduce scholarship funding. It is important to note that not only “black” Bermudians get scholarships.
Also, I agree with the suggestion that scholarships have a service / return to community requirement. If the country (public or private) has invested in the student – it is only right that the country (private or public) expect a return on the investment. If not, it can be treated as an interest free education loan.
Perhaps that is the solution. Receivers of Govt scholarships of past should donate a small annual amount to a fund. That fund then can be used to grant new scholarships.
How about $500 per year or something like 1% of the total scholarship they recieved paid back annually.
Ultimately the people who had the scholarships benefited, so should help the next generation in this way.
Funny, he has a problem with a lack of funds for scholarships but has no problem with $80,000 spent per year on prisoners so that they can eat well & get health care. Also there is no problem with having to spend over $300,000 per DAY to cover the interest on the DEBT that the PLP ran up.
And somebody has a problem with a miserable $50,000 that was given to the Philipines for a natural disaster.
Unbelievable!
Who is going to be trotted out tomorrow to say something silly?
Right on cue…this morning it was Walter now Walton and tomorrow it will be Burt or Furbert….
Good for you Betty Trump! I’m proud of your input of information that proves that you actually care about forging ahead. Some critics believe that since we are in the midst of river rapids and dropped a paddle, we should turn around to retrieve it. Shame on you Mike Hinds!
For what?
You’re lauding “Bettty Trump” for… whatever nonsense you’re talking about… ‘cuz nothing you wrote even remotely resembles the things that “Bettty” writes, and saying “Shame on me?”
Shame on you for supporting a liar and a propagandist.
(And it’s “Hind”. How hard is it to read my name and reproduce it? Seriously.)
Don’t worry about need peace, just someone “betty” told to come on here and write a B$ statement just for s**** and giggles….
Folks, well maybe this was done to encourage more students to attend the College. If we continue to have students to go abroad and the NTB continously funds students to complete degrees overseas for which they can start at the college then I am in support of the budget reducationa. remember if too many students go overseas then there will be job losses at the college.
let s support our own college
I think this is actually the point. The OBA has been working with the college to expand programs and to form relationships with Georgia State and Mount Vincent University. Someone at Bermuda college has really stepped up to provide opportunities for Bermudians to get a quality 4 year education for a very reasonable price without having to leave home. With this option available funding for overseas schools can be cut without materially affecting the opportunities for low income Bermudians to get a quality 4 year education.
The other issue I have with this is that the PLP is famous for cherry picking line items in a budget while ignoring totals.
To form an informed opinion based on truly open, honest and transparent information we would need to see the total budget for scholarships and grants for all students.
The REAL PROBLEM about the PLP bloggers on this site is that they actually believe the majority of s*** put out by their MP’s even if it ain’t true, and that is some scary s***, OBA bloggers do it too, but they don’t go to the lengths to spread it as the PLP bloggers do.
The problem with plp bloggers they DO NOT UNDERSTAND the position “their” party left BERMUDIANS in with NO MONEY! The truth can slap them dead in there face and they still dont get it! So 2 my fellow PLPers answer this questions: What if the OBA put Bermuda in this depression? 800mil poof and disappear? contract overruns? Hotel development promises? All the names under the sun the Oba would have been called!
Walton do you want to talk about all of the scholarships that the PLP cancelled? go back to all of the IB people that Brown,Burch and Cox drove out and the money they took with them
Not one comment on the impact these cuts will have on the populous, long term. We’ll just import people that other countries paid to educate.
The cuckoo bird lays their eggs in other birds nest, is this the education policy of the OBA. We’ll just import the educated, from weathy countries and the desperate & hungry from poorer countries for manual Labour .
My apologies! It probably should read Mike “Be-Hind”
If what Mr Brown states is correct, it is shockingly abysmal. Without the academic qualifications Bermudians will not be able to compete with foreigners for jobs in specialised fields in Bermuda.
Irrespective of what level of funds is currently in the public purse, if we are ONLY giving $40,000 per year in scholarships it is tantamount to rendering our local workforce illiterate in the corporate world.
And that is a very good reason why reinsurance companies will continue to bring in their own employees, as the government of their host country fails to investment in higher education of its own people. The changed policy by the OBA is insultingly below any reasonable higher educational benchmark.
With regard to Bermuda College, why are we not partnering with a university to have their guidance, expertise and reputation bestowed on us as their second campus in Bermuda.
Mauritius islands have done just that as they have partnered with Aberystwyth University (Scotland). Now Mauritius is Aberystwyth’s second campus, so students can receive their higher educated in either country. Why not offer foreign students the opportunity to study in Bermuda and/or Bermudians students to study in the UK, US, Scotland (depending upon who partners with Bermuda College?
We have the brilliant minds at Bermuda College and a foremost cutting edge reinsurance industry, it’s time to make higher education a more dominant focus point reinforcing our global expertise in the corporate world.
London, England
FINAL EDIT
If what Mr Brown states is correct, it is shockingly abysmal. Without the academic qualifications Bermudians will not be able to compete with foreigners for jobs in specialised fields in Bermuda.
Irrespective of what level of funds is currently in the public purse, if we are ONLY giving $40,000 per year in scholarships it is tantamount to rendering our local workforce illiterate in the corporate world.
And, that is a very good reason why reinsurance companies will argue and continue to bring in their own employees, as the government of their host country fails to investment in higher education of its own people. The changed policy by the OBA is insultingly below any reasonable higher education benchmark. We are deliberately lowering the bar on higher education by closing the door on those without the financial means.
With regard to Bermuda College, why are we not partnering with a university to have their guidance, expertise and reputation bestowed on us as their second campus in Bermuda.
Mauritius islands have done just that as they have partnered with Aberystwyth University (Scotland). Now Mauritius is Aberystwyth’s second campus, so students can receive their higher education in either country. Why not offer foreign students the opportunity to study in Bermuda and/or Bermudians students to study in the UK, US, Scotland (depending upon who partners with Bermuda College)?
We have the brilliant minds at Bermuda College and a foremost cutting edge reinsurance industry, it’s time to make higher education a more dominant focus point reinforcing our global expertise in the corporate world.
London, England
Valirie: What you and the great Mr. Brown do not understand is that many many companies also offer scholarships for students in Bermuda. The Bermuda Government cannot afford anymore then that. The PLP spent all our money when they were in power. Bermudian students can go to any Europe country to study and England, what more do you folks want. Get real.
@Animalover…
It is NOT up to a foreign entity to step into the shoes of its host country to fulfil the obligation for that country by educating its citizenry.
No wonder we are caught in the vicious trap of Bermudians NEVER being able to advance into senior and/or executive management positions. It’s by design, an OBA government destroys the opportunities for its citizens then claims that the last government caused them to do so.
Please do not debate on the false premise that Bermuda is bankrupt and/or anywhere near it because you are selling propaganda every time you post this nonsense. Honestly, I do not like to debate debaters guided by blind faith in the propaganda ‘drivel’ of their hierarchy leadership.
The money being spent on government travel by people like Gibbons can be better utilised to educate Bermudians. He can afford to travel out of his own pocket, for his sacrifice to Bermuda since, according to you, we have no funds.
Funds spent on scholarships are a reinvestment in Bermuda based upon investing in human capital, i.e., people. The students come back home to enter into corporate Bermuda to move into senior and/or executive positions in Bermuda. They in return, should be keen to support, defend, protect and promote entrepreneurial Bermudian businesses to ensure their pathway to success. That’s one way how reinvestment through scholarships works in Bermuda, and there are many more examples.
Bermudians should not be greedy and arrogantly demand that the IB educate our citizens with scholarships – now that brings to mind the negative word, ‘entitlement’. Just because IB is here, we are NOT entitled to be educated by them. In my humble opinion, there is an over reliance upon them and they can only do so much for us, we have to do it for ourselves.
This government needs to start playing fair on all levels, IB bit back once, do not think that they will not bite back again. We need to educate our own and not attempt to make it the responsibility of foreign entities in Bermuda.
London, England
Thanks Valirie Marcia Akinstall says:
March 13, 2014 at 2:04 pm I agree with you, as I share the same view in regards to this particular matter.
Well said Ms. Akinstall!