Tag: Dan Scott
Scott: PPPs can tackle school issues
(CNS): Education Council Chairman Dan Scott has pointed to the private sector as a source of resolving the ever-increasing pressure on space in Cayman schools that he said could also reverse the divisions that have been created in the education system between local and expatriate children.
School curriculum facing future changes
(CNS): By 2021, the Cayman Islands education curriculum will be changed, teachers will have an increase in salary and the John Gray High School will be built, Education Minister Juliana O’Connor-Connolly promised teachers during the annual education professionals welcome last week. It will be another year before teachers see the much touted pay rise to a minimum […]
College scholarships to be means tested
(CNS): Recommendations that the Cayman Islands Education Council made to the Ministry of Education to introduce means testing for scholarships have been adopted, paving the way for resources to be concentrated where they are really needed, according to the council’s chairman, Dan Scott. The test will be for high income families only, but having free […]
Dan Scott takes helm of new education board
(CNS): Dan Scott, managing partner at Ernst and Young, has been appointed to lead the new Cayman Islands Education Council, according to the latest edition of the government’s Gazette. Scott, who has served, and continues to serve, on numerous other government boards, is the first private sector chairperson of an education board after the law […]
Royal gongs for marathon man and auditor
(CNS): Derek Haines has been recognised in the latest list of royal gong recipients for the Queen’s birthday honours list. The former police officer and veteran runner has received an MBE for his contributions to the community in general but also for his incredible six marathons last year, in which he raised more than $1.1 million […]
