The Bermuda College will this week host a discussion on cultural demographics and education in Bermuda.

The event will feature local educators Mellisa Gibbons-Tankard and John Duncan discussing their published treatises from the first Bermuda College publication “BC Journal: Voices in Education”.

A college spokeswoman said: “Dr Gibbons-Tankard believes Bermuda may be out of sync with the practices and focus of more progressive educational systems which recognise the importance of the cultural variations within a student population, and that students themselves can be inadvertently penalised as a result.

“Dr Duncan will share his own research on the academic achievement and social success of black male students from his research on two local middle schools.”

The event is scheduled to take place at 5.30pm on Thursday in the College Library.

For a free copy of the journal, visit http://www.college.bm/Media/Website%20Resources/documents/BC_Journal_Vol_1_June_2015.pdf.