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Residents have given top marks to teachers who staged a mass sick-out.
Members of the public told The Royal Gazette the Bermuda Government should give teachers what they need to do their jobs, tackle long-running concerns about the state of the islan...
DATE: Dec 13, 2018
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Education
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The Green family donated $18,000 worth of school supplies to public primary schools.
Each school across the island will receive $1,000 worth of supplies selected by P2 and P3 teachers.
The donation was made through community action project, Support P...
DATE: Dec 13, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
News Staff
Sick-outs by school staff were a last resort to draw attention to the state of the education system, according to a teacher and a deputy principal, who spoke to The Royal Gazette yesterday on condition of anonymity.
The veteran teacher, said schools ...
DATE: Dec 12, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Ethan Fubler is only 17, but looking forward to completing his Associate’s Degree in Business Administration from Bermuda College next year.
The keen student has won recognition at every CedarBridge Academy annual prize giving since he entered the sc...
DATE: Dec 10, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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A former acting education commissioner has returned to the post for a one-month stint.
Llewellyn Simmons, director of academics at the Department of Education, took over at the start of this month because Kalmar Richards is on compassionate leave.
T...
DATE: Dec 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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A sickout staged by teaching assistants across the island yesterday was “completely unacceptable”, said the Minister of Education.
But the head of the teachers’ union laid the blame for the job action at the minister’s door.
The teaching assistants...
DATE: Dec 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Teachers have refused to enter pupils’ grades into an all-schools computer network, the education minister admitted yesterday.
But the head of the teachers’ union called the minister’s comments “very misleading”.
Diallo Rabain said teachers had been...
DATE: Dec 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Teachers will be provided with instruction next month on a new pupil grading system, the Minister of Education announced today.
Diallo Rabian said that a “full day of professional development” would be held in January to provide teachers and adminis...
DATE: Dec 07, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Public and private secondary schools across the island have been awarded a total of $240,000 for charity work carried out by their pupils.
PartnerRe, the Hamilton-based reinsurer, donated $30,000 to eight of the island’s schools through its Dollars f...
DATE: Dec 06, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Teachers at West Pembroke Primary School have returned to the classroom after they staged a sickout last week.
Mike Charles, general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said: “Representatives had a meeting and all the teachers are back at wo...
DATE: Dec 05, 2018
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes