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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]
Demographics of the Bahamas. Bahamas population pyramid in 2020. This is a demography of the population of The Bahamas including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Census population and average annual growth rate. Year. Pop. ±%. 1845.
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 pre-cursor to the University of The Bahamas.
The Bahamas ( / bəˈhɑːməz / ⓘ bə-HAH-məz ), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, [12] is a country in North America and the Caribbean. It is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its population.
The College of the Bahamas was founded in 1974 and provided the nation's higher or tertiary education. The college was chartered in 2016 as the University of the Bahamas, offering baccalaureate, masters and associate degrees, on three campuses and teaching and research centres throughout the Bahamas.
Doris Sands Johnson. Dame Doris Sands Johnson DBE (19 June 1921 – 21 June 1983) was a Bahamian teacher, suffragette, and politician. She was the first Bahamian woman to contest an election in the Bahamas, the first female Senate appointee, and the first woman granted a leadership role in the Senate. Once in the legislature, she was the first ...
Mabel Walker (suffragist) Mabel Cordelia Holloway Walker ( May 2, 1902 – July 8, 1987), an American - Bahamian suffragist, was the founding president of the Bahamas Union of Teachers and the first woman to head a trade union in The Bahamas. [1] Walker along with Mary Ingraham, Georgianna Symonette, and Eugenia Lockhart started the Women's ...
Nassau ( / ˈnæsɔː / NASS-aw) is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas. It is located on the island of New Providence, which had a population of 246,329 in 2010, or just over 70% of the entire population of The Bahamas. [2] As of April 2023, the preliminary results of the 2022 census of the Bahamas reported a population of 296,522 for ...