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Teachers went back to school as part of a two-day professional development workshop designed to boost skills.
The teaching staff alternated between the front of class and playing pupils in an exercise designed to improve instructional methods.
The wo...
DATE: Feb 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Saltus Grammar School is hosting a student-led assembly next week featuring discussions on Black History Month.
Middle and senior level students in the school’s Diversity and Inclusion group will speak on the significance of Black History Month whil...
DATE: Feb 22, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The opposition One Bermuda Alliance Party has questioned Government plans to shut down almost half of the island’s 18 primary schools.
And Shadow Education Minister Susan Jackson also called for more detail on the training that teachers will be given...
DATE: Feb 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Young people across Bermuda have received practical training in the skills to make the grade in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards.
The classes were given to participants in the open awards, which are for young people who do not get access to the programme...
DATE: Feb 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Three people were inducted into the Company of Honorary Fellows of Bermuda College last night.
Craig Bridgewater, Janet Ferguson and the family of the late Eva Hodgson, received distinctive stoles – or sashes – and certificates in live-streamed cerem...
DATE: Feb 19, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, has rejected calls to abolish “coerced” collective worship in schools.
Mr Rabain said he supported legislation which dictates that schools “shall begin with collective worship on the part of all pupils in at...
DATE: Feb 18, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Student numbers at The Bermuda College have more than doubled in the last five years according to the Ministry of Education.
And, the ministry said, the numbers are up in part because of wider access to Government funding in the form of scholarshi...
DATE: Feb 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An overseas company asked to redesign Bermuda’s public school system will be paid more than $2 million, it has been revealed.
A notice published in the Official Gazette on Monday said that Innovation Unit Australia New Zealand would get $2.1 million ...
DATE: Feb 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A cut in the number of public primary schools from three to two in Pembroke would still mean enough space for all the parish’s pupils, a virtual meeting on changes to the education system heard last night.
Kalmar Richards, the education commissioner,...
DATE: Feb 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Six pupils at an international school have been appointed acting prefects.
Azari Kelly, Matthew Mitchell, Zyrah Trott, Matthew Forrester, Keziah Smith and Jordan Smith all study at the Chatmore British International school in Smith’s.
The six, aged b...
DATE: Feb 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan