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A former teacher of roads death victim Oronde Wilson Jr said yesterday he was a promising student with a gift for science.
Mr Wilson, 28, died on Monday after his motorcycle crashed on Middle Road in Southampton.
It marked the first road death of 202...
DATE: Jan 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
A major figure in the island’s public education system has died.
Earl “Gabby” Hart was 79.
Mr Hart was also prominent in sport as a founder of the Bermuda Track & Field Association in 1972 and as an influential member of the Young Men’s Social Club.
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DATE: Jan 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Private school pupils will go back to their classrooms for the start of the new term, it was announced yesterday.
But public schoolchildren will be learning at home from today until at least January 12.
Pupils at Mount Saint Agnes Academy were back ...
DATE: Jan 05, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Education chiefs will meet next week to decide if schoolchildren will go back to their classrooms in the middle of the month.
The Education Emergency Measures Committee has already ruled that remote learning will be used from Tuesday until January 12...
DATE: Jan 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A firebrand school principal in the United States whose tough love approach to pupils inspired the film Lean on Me has died.
Joe Louis Clark was 83.
Mr Clark’s link to Bermuda came through daughter Hazel Clark, a former Olympian and director of sport...
DATE: Jan 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell, Chief Obituary Writer
Big-hearted staff at a reinsurance firm donated 88 decorative shoeboxes packed with school supplies, clothing and other accessories to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda.
Marsh and Guy Carpenter announced the giveaway, worth $8,800, to the mentoring...
DATE: Dec 31, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
School closures could be avoided if they were allowed to apply for charter school status and get the right to government grants, an education campaigner has said.
Becky Ausenda, the executive director of the Bermuda Education Network, an organisatio...
DATE: Dec 28, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Minister of Education has defended the move to consider closing high-performing primary schools saying that all of Bermuda’s schools should be performing well.
Diallo Rabain was speaking to The Royal Gazette about government’s plans to overhaul t...
DATE: Dec 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The PTA president at Port Royal Primary School has expressed shock and disappointment at the news it may be closed.
Port Royal Primary is one of nine primary schools facing closure as part of government proposals to overhaul the public education syst...
DATE: Dec 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Students and staff at Northlands Primary School have been working all month to spread Christmas cheer in the community.
The month began with the release of the song Christmas Time, by the Northlands School Choir, which has been playing frequently on...
DATE: Dec 24, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan