A few teaching posts in the Island’s public schools are still waiting to be filled — but Government attributes the delay to visa formalities.In any case, vacancies for next year will be advertised as early as next month, to avoid delays.Details emerged at last night’s Education Town Hall Meeting, held in TN Tatem Middle School, to update the public on the Cambridge Curriculum in Government schools.Education Minister Dame Jennifer Smith said she was making good on a promise to open up the public school system to more parental involvement.Direct consultation with individual PTAs began last week in St George’s, she said.“It will continue until we have met with every single PTA,” Dame Jennifer added.The remarks on lingering vacancies came from Permanent Secretary Warren Jones, questioned by TN Tatem PTA head Quinton Ming.Telling the panel that his daughter has been “changed around through three different classes” since she started at CedarBridge, Mr Ming asked when vacancies at the senior school would be filled.Mr Jones said the delay had affected a small number of teachers recruited from Jamaica who were facing a complex visa procedures.For next year, he added: “We are going to advertise every post in October.”Director of Academic Services Llewellyn Simmons said promising results from P3 and M3 students for tests of their Cambridge Curriculum performance indicated that scores would rise as public school students adapted to the new curricula.For those graduating from the system, he said, the 2012 cohorts showed a 94 percent graduation rate, or 216 out of 229, with a minimum 2.0 GPA.Fresh from attending an annual Cambridge Curriculum Conference in the UK, Education Commissioner Wendy McDonnell said the new system was key for transforming Bermuda’s educational system.“The aim is to develop confident learners,” she said, pointing to increasing implementation of the Cambridge system across the world.Currently, Bermuda has the distinction of being “the only public school in the English speaking system that has adopted it”, she added.Bermuda’s Government schools are currently in the third year of implementing the international examination regime.Useful website: www.cie.org.uk.