A proposal to develop a more international Bermuda College, with dormitories for local students, fell on deaf ears with Government, a former College Chairman has said.Insurance industry leader Brian Hall told The Royal Gazette he was offended when, in 1998, members of the new Progressive Labour Party Government didn’t take interest in his plans.Appointed to the college’s Board in 1997, Mr Hall became Chairman the following year. He was replaced at the end of that year by Randy Horton.In a recent letter to The Royal Gazette, Mr Hall said he had come to believe in the mid-1990s that a campus with dormitories would give the Island’s students a proper college experience — making it “not a place to go on your bikes at 9am, and leave at 3.30pm”.Saying he was “saddened” that parents chose overseas tertiary education for their children, “to avoid the Bermuda College”, Mr Hall added: “I developed a notion how to make the Bermuda College internationally accredited”.Shades of the proposal are hinted at in a 1998 application by the college to Planning — which Mr Hall described to this newspaper at the time as a “master plan” for the new millennium.The design included housing for local as well as foreign students.It followed remarks at the 1998 convocation ceremony, in which Mr Hall said the Bermuda College would be surveying the community for on-campus housing.He said he hoped to have student housing at the college by 2000, but said college authorities were still waiting to see the results of a “Bermuda Student Housing Survey” sent out to residents in the area and staff and students at the college.In his letter, Mr Hall described a vision for the Bermuda College to attract more US students for insurance and finance.During the summer, dormitories could have served for “a business school to study and review the financial and insurance community in Bermuda”, he said, adding: “We also thought that we could acquire Loughlands, across the street, as part of the plan.”Bermuda College President Duranda Greene, off the Island, could not be reached to confirm whether “boxes of research” from the proposal had been sent to the college.Mr Hall claimed he was stonewalled in attempts to deliver his proposal to then-Premier Dame Jennifer Smith in 1998, and that the next Chairman at the college, Randy Horton, did not show interest in the scheme. Neither was available last night to comment.