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Teachers have backed a vote of no confidence in the Commissioner of Education and the Ministry of Education’s top civil servant. A spokesman for the Bermuda Union of Teachers said that members had “overwhelmingly” agreed on the action against Kalma...

The head of the island’s first trade union yesterday called on teachers to keep the flame lit by its founders alive as the organisation marked its 100th anniversary. Shannon James, the president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said: “Today is a da...

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...

Education is the key to democracy and economic development, the former head of the global teachers’ body Education International has said. Fred Van Leeuwen, the group’s past general secretary, added education was “an individual and collective right”....

From West Virginia to Arizona, public-school teachers are in revolt. They are demanding better pay, and they deserve it — so long as their salaries are tied to their performance. It’s not that teachers in the United States are underpaid; the median i...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary with a host of events and fundraising for scholarships. The union, one of the largest in Bermuda, which was established on February 1, 1919, will be marking its centenary...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers delivered a broadside at the Government yesterday, declaring its track record on education “abysmal”. But the union’s statement elicited a swift response from the One Bermuda Alliance questioning its use of Budget book n...

Teachers are being offered weekly meetings with the Public Service Negotiating Team until their contract row is finished. Education minister Cole Simons said the first meeting will take place on Tuesday next week — but union leader Mike Charles react...

The promotion of Freddie Evans to Commissioner of Education won high marks from Mike Charles, general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers. “He has demonstrated, despite all the negatives, that he can do the job,” Mr Charles told The Royal Gaze...

Union leaders lamented the state of the island on Labour Day yesterday, accusing the Bermuda Government of misfiring policies and misspending money when the people are struggling. Hundreds of people gathered at Union Street ahead of the annual march,...

Many of Bermuda’s public school buildings are “worse than Third World” and the Bermuda Government should focus on fixing them rather than closing or consolidating schools, according to the leader of a teachers’ union. Mike Charles, general secretary ...

The Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association has called for immediate action to tackle the shortage of therapists in the Island’s schools. Harry Matthie, the association’s chairman, said that the recruitment process was too long and new personnel w...