Bmda: Schools need improvement

Bermuda College president Michael Orenduff has slammed the Island’s education system, claiming that it is “not good enough”.

And Dr. Orenduff also argued that students were not being given adequate training in trades and that Bermudian history and culture were not featured strongly enough in school curriculums.

Dr. Orenduff, who retires from the college in the summer after three years as president, said: “My impression from talking to students and faculty as well as teaching a class myself, is that I feel the students here are pretty much comparable with students in the US – Bermuda needs to do better than the US.

“The US can absorb a certain number of uneducated workers simply because it is big enough but Bermuda is too small to be able to do that.”

Referring to the college, Dr. Orenduff admitted that the facility’s curriculum was still too “traditional” and that technical training needed to be improved.

“We need a more up-to-date curriculum but it is a slow process to change,” he told The Royal Gazette.

It would be interesting to discover what Orenduff means by "traditional" and "up-to-date" with regard to curriculum. Is basket-weaving and queer theory part of the new "up-to-date" curriculum?