BTVI Students Soaring in Web-based Math Classes

In the fall 2020 term, 87% of Math students at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) passed their courses. According to Chair of the Math department, Ron Clarke, this represents the highest pass rate in Math that BTVI has seen...

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You Go Girl!

By JEFFARAH GIBSON

Tribune Features Writer

SHE started music lessons after writing four songs and teaching herself how to play the guitar. It might seem backwards but 15 year-old Rachel Albury said that the music lessons are simply to enhance her interpretation of guitar theory.

Playing the guitar started as a playful hobby for the tenth grade student of Kingsway Academy. With the help of youtu...

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Leon Fleisher: Pianist who battled hand condition dies at 92

Renowned American pianist Leon Fleisher has died from cancer, aged 92...

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C Force's Concert And Deep Blue CD Launch

Tuesday 3rd December 2013  6:30 PM

C Force is pleased to announce the upcoming release of their newest compact disc entitled Deep Blue.

Deep Blue is a reflection of C Force?s commitment to the preservation and promotion of art music from The Bahamas and its neighboring Caribbean region. It is a compilation of original compositions, transcriptions, and arrangements of pieces written in a classical vein while manifesting elements ...

The great disrupters and the New World Order

Civilization as we know it, may have been started some 4,000 years ago with the call by God to Abraham to leave his homeland, the Mesopotamia (Iraq, already the most enlightened nation in the universe then, with the practice of the Code of Hammurabi strangely

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Department of Inland Revenue participates in Financial Modeling Workshop

The Department of Inland Revenue will participate in a 3-day intensive training workshop to reinforce Excel functions through financial modeling to enhance data interpretation within the unit...

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BTVI addressing math 'crisis'

During the opening ceremony of the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute’s (BTVI) Math Fest, Math instructor, Ron Clarke and Chair, Archilene O’Brien, proudly wear t-shirts designed by student, Dasha Turnquest...

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Artificial Intelligence Helps Boost Math Skills of BTVI Students

The idea of math was always daunting for Darian Smith. Since high school, he always struggled with the subject and it was his least favorite thing to practice. That fear followed him into the classrooms at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI)...

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Environment Ministry Supports BTVI Solar Energy Training

The Bahamas Technical & Vocational Institute (BTVI) paid a courtesy call on the Ministry of the Environment & Housing, September 15, at Charlotte House, downtown. BTVI President Dr. Robert Robertson met with the Minister, the Hon. Romauld Ferreira, to garner his support for the college's 15-week-long dual enrollment programme...

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The gender gap, a chilling divide

The gender gap in education is not unique to The Bahamas.
And it has long been observed.
Recent national examination results have brought this critical concern back into focus.
Girls received 67 percent of the A grades awarded for the Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education exams (BGCSEs).
They also received most of the Bs and Cs awarded.
A total of 6,692 students sat the exams this yea...

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