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Education in the Bahamas. Education in the Bahamas is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16. [1] As of 2003, the school attendance rate was 92% and the literacy rate was 95.5%. [1] The government fully operates 158 of the 210 primary and secondary schools in The Bahamas. [1] The other 55 schools are privately operated. [1]
Minister responsible. Glenys Hanna Martin. Parent agency. Government of the Bahamas. Website. www .ministryofeducationbahamas .com. The Ministry of Education and Technical and Vocational Training is a government ministry of the Bahamas responsible for public education.
Overview. The University of The Bahamas has about 5,000 students and over 12,000 alumni. It is one of the largest employers in The Bahamas, employing 700 faculty and staff. Seventy-six percent of the over 300 faculty (261 full-time and 96 part-time) are Bahamian. The College of The Bahamas (COB) was the precursor to the University of The Bahamas.
Lyford Cay International School (LCIS) was founded in 1962 by Canadian entrepreneur E.P. Taylor, for children of his employees on the island. Initial enrollment was just 9 students - and 2 teachers, Tom Miller and his wife Francis Miller - but by 1981 these figures had grown to 147 and 9 respectively. The years 1994-97 marked a period of rapid ...
Coordinates: 25.0666°N 77.3149°W. Queen's College (QC) is a coeducational institution located in Nassau, Bahamas, operating under the auspices of the Bahamas Conference of the Methodist Church. Founded in 1890, Queen's College [1] is the oldest private school in the Bahamas.
Bishop Michael Eldon School. BMES crest. Bishop Michael Eldon School is a private school in Freeport, the Bahamas, run by the Anglican Central Education Authority. The school was formed by the consolidation of other schools including Freeport High School founded in 1965 and Discovery Primary School founded in 1988.
St. Augustine UWI Campus. The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, [2] [3] is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands ...
Sports & Clubs. L.I.S. has club sign-up sheets for tennis lessons, creative activities, homework clubs etc. Website. www .lucayainternationalschool .com. Lucaya International School is an international school in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. The schools offers early years to grade 13 education to Bahamians and foreign residents.