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There’s a non-trivial element of entertainment involved in the act — or art — of teaching. If you think back to your favourite teachers over the years, whether from school or university, I would wager that they found a way to convey their own interes...

Study loans of about $15,000 to trainee teachers to tackle staff shortages in public schools are to be set up, the education minister announced today. Diallo Rabain said the teacher’s certification bonded loan scheme would help ease the cost burden ...

A charity for people with disabilities has shifted its education and therapy programmes in line with the Government stay-at-home order. WindReach Bermuda sent remote learning packages to people enrolled in its life skills, therapeutic riding and adul...

The year 2020 and the start of 2021 will mark a dramatically different school experience that all of our children will remember for the rest of their lives. Our teachers have had to be creative, adapting to conditions and circumstances that they were...

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...

The Minister of Education has called for people to participate in “prototyping activities” which will form part of the redesign of Bermuda’s public education school system. Diallo Rabain made the call during a press conference this afternoon where he...

This will be a special Christmas for Judith Rollo and Delores Sullivan, Bermuda’s last Sisters of Charity. Having spent decades here helping the community, the pair will leave the island on Sunday to enter an assisted living home in Massachusetts. Th...

A charity for children with reading challenges has appointed a new executive director. Kendra-Lee Pearman, an educational psychologist, has taken over from Glenn Faries, who held the post for five years. Dr Pearman said the clinic’s mission had struc...

The Bermuda College will host a virtual conference on Saturday aimed at helping educators to better teach reading, especially to primary school students. The conference, entitled “Reading Success for Every Child: Teaching Reading is Rocket Science”,...

A schoolboy with severe autism has been refused permission to repeat a school year despite backing from his teacher and doctor. His parents said their son had the mental age of a five-year-old and, because of disruption to his education caused by th...

Two acting school principals and three acting preschool administrators have been appointed by the Department of Education. Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education, said that the positions were required because of retirements and resignations. ...

Worried teachers said yesterday they feared problems with the school bus service when the new term started because of Covid-19 safety rules. It is expected that students will be required to stick to social-distancing rules on reduced capacity buses w...