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Online enrolment for parents to register their children for the next school year has opened, the education ministry announced yesterday. Registration options through the new PowerSchool online enrolment were released for preschool, primary school and...

Public school pupils will be able to return to the classroom after taking a coronavirus antigen test at home instead of a PCR test. Tinée Furbert, the Acting Minister of Education, said the change will be phased in from next week. Antigen tests have ...

The Government yesterday denied it lost its grip on the coronavirus crisis after long delays in the test system left most schools closed on the first day of term and caused “chaotic” scenes at the airport. Kim Wilson, the health minister, defended th...

A two-day lag for coronavirus test results from the island’s main laboratory is expected to continue, the scientist in charge warned yesterday. Carika Weldon said that positive cases for the virus at the Molecular Diagnostic and Research Laboratory h...

More school classes may need to be taught remotely as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continued to sweep across the island, the Premier said yesterday. David Burt was speaking after schools failed to reopen last Wednesday as planned — and the...

The Government is to introduce a pilot at-home coronavirus antigen test programme at some schools, The Royal Gazette understands. A letter said to be from Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education, was sent to “system leaders” after a backlog o...

The Government may relax quarantine measures imposed to stem a recent surge in coronavirus infections, The Royal Gazette can reveal. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health confirmed that the Government was aware that other countries had reduced qua...

Both senior schools will stay shut today, the Government announced last night. CedarBridge Academy and Berkeley Institute will continue with remote learning amid problems with coronavirus testing of large numbers of staff and pupils across the school...

After-school programmes were suspended today at many schools because of the Covid-19 pandemic and delayed test results. The Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation said there will be a delay in the after-school programme and after-school club servi...

Several schools are set to reopen their classrooms to pupils today, but most of the island’s middle schools and senior schools will stay shut. The Department of Education said Victor Scott Preschool would resume classes today, which left St David’s P...

The way ministers handled a last minute decision to abandon plans for a full scale return to the classroom was last night attacked by the One Bermuda Alliance. Susan Jackson, the shadow education minister, said parents and families had been suffered ...

More schools are set to reopen tomorrow after another day of Covid-19 tests – but the senior schools and several middle schools will stay closed. Tinee Furbert, the acting education minister, said: “We continue to make notable progress with school op...