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The Bermuda Union of Teachers issued the following statement on Standards-Based Grading: We, as a body of professional educators, are not opposed to Standards-Based Education/Grading and feel that it has the potential to be a very positive way forwar...

The Department of Education has asked the Bermuda Union of Teachers to a meeting to tackle fears over a new grading and reports system for pupils. Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education, announced that the meeting would be held today with hel...

A no-confidence vote in the senior managers of public schools was dismissed yesterday by the Minister of Education. Diallo Rabain backed Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education, and Valerie Robinson-James, the permanent secretary at the minist...

A meeting between public school paraeducators and education therapist assistants, and the Bermuda Union of Teachers with the Public Service Negotiations Team, was postponed this morning. A spokeswoman for the Government said the Department of Educati...

The new bus schedule for 2019, which was postponed two times last month, is to come into force. The bus operators have now accepted a revised roster and agreed to implement the schedule. It was put on hold after staff raised concerns about rosters an...

Dear Sir, I am someone who reads The Royal Gazette daily online, and I smiled as I read the heading “BUT celebrating 100 years of fighting for education” in today’s paper (January 31, 2019). On my arm at this very moment is a watch gifted to me by Do...

The head of the island’s blue-collar union has denied the assertion by a former finance minister that union opposition to the public-private partnership to build a new airport was political. Bermuda Industrial Union president Chris Furbert hit out ye...

The Bermuda Union of Teachers is as crucial today as when it was founded 100 years ago, its leader said yesterday. Shannon James, the president of the union, said the organisation was created to “ensure that Bermudian children received a quality edu...

The 100th anniversary of the island’s first trade union is a “vital” milestone, the organiser of an event to honour its founders said yesterday. Glenn Fubler said that the anniversary was important “not just to the BUT, but to the whole community”. ...

The Bermuda Industrial Union was never opposed to the airport redevelopment project, the union’s president claimed yesterday. Chris Furbert said: “Let’s just be clear, because I think that, somehow or the other, [Craig] Cannonier and the One Bermuda...

A work to rule at West Pembroke Primary School quietly ended earlier this month, according to the Ministry of Education. The action which launched in November came to an end on January 3. A spokesman said: “Towards the end of November 2018, West Pemb...

A date for the first new style report cards for public school- children is still up in the air, the education minister admitted yesterday. Diallo Rabain said that discussions would begin “this week” with Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education...