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The views of about 1,000 members of the community were released by the government in the Parish Primary School Consultation Submissions report. Comments were made in favour of and against the government’s Parish Primary School Plan. The vast majorit...

Members of the community hoping to save their schools put forward several alternatives to closure during the consultation on parish primary schools. Elliot Primary School in Devonshire was the only school originally slated for closure under the Paris...

Campaigners have not given up hope of saving an historic school threatened with closure in an overhaul of public education. Phil Perinchief, a former PLP Attorney-General who attended the West End Primary School, said there was “talk of forming a gr...

A single mother yesterday said she was “shocked and disappointed” after she found that her child could not be enrolled in a new Government-run preschool programme because of a policy change. The mother said she applied in June for a place on the Brig...

It may be that the Government’s plans to close half of the island’s primary schools are so popular and make such good sense that that is the reason there has been virtually no opposition to the announcement last month. But that seems unlikely. But i...

The Cambridge curriculum should be scrapped under government’s education reform plans, the former principal of St George’s Preparatory School has said. Mary Lodge said that the relatively low Cambridge Primary Checkpoint results in English, Maths and...

Government avoids being held accountable for school performance if it continues to keep academic grades “top secret”, a former top civil servant told education reformers this week. Mansfield Brock, CBE, a former Permanent Secretary of Education and ...

A report revealing the public’s views on a proposal to close nine primary schools, renovate nine others and build a new primary school in Devonshire will be released by the end of June, the Ministry of Education has promised. Consultation on the Prop...

For decades Bermudians have been lamenting the education system in this country. Every single aspect of education from the Minister of Education, Ministry of Edcuation, Department of Education, teachers, curriculum, resources and school buildings ha...

Timeline: 25 years of reforming public education 1996: Education Act passes and middle schools are introduced by the United Bermuda Party government. December 1998: The Progressive Labour Party wins power. May 2007: The Hopkins R...

Yesterday, The Royal Gazette profiled the history of four primary schools slated for closure under Government’s education reform proposals. Today, we feature the other five which could shut. Sarah Lagan reports. Elliot Primary School – 1846...

The teachers’ union is prepared to fight redundancies proposed as part of a major shake-up of the schools system, the organisation’s general secretary has said. Mike Charles, the general secretary of the Bermuda Union of Teachers said: “We have not b...