332 results returned for search: "education AND " author Fiona McWhirter
A sail training programme designed to help build character in schoolchildren is even more relevant today than when it first launched more than a decade ago, the outgoing executive director of the programme said.
Branwen Smith-King, who has just left ...
DATE: Feb 12, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
A spotlight will be turned on employers who “steal” from their staff by failing to deposit social insurance and pension contributions, the Minister of Finance warned last night.
Curtis Dickinson said he wanted to help workers keep better track of the...
DATE: Feb 07, 2020
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Politics
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Fiona McWhirter
Parents were urged to keep their children off school if they showed signs of whooping cough after two confirmed cases of the highly contagious illness.
Staff at Somersfield Academy announced a string of precautionary measures yesterday in efforts to ...
DATE: Feb 03, 2020
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Health
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Fiona McWhirter
A veteran teacher is to retire next year after his school celebrates its 30th anniversary.
Carlos Symonds told parents of Somersfield Academy pupils that he planned to step down as head of the Devonshire school in the summer of 2021.
He explained in ...
DATE: Jan 23, 2020
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Teenagers took up the campaign for safer roads yesterday as they remembered a schoolmate who died in a crash earlier this week.
Pupils and teachers at the Bermuda Institute turned the school into a sea of blue as they paid tribute to Kijani Burgess a...
DATE: Jan 18, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
A charity that campaigns for people with disabilities plans to carry out a review of educational opportunities for differently abled children, it was revealed yesterday.
Sherrie Lynn Lilley, the executive director of Inspire Bermuda, said that pupils...
DATE: Jan 13, 2020
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
Building trade workers are let down by a lack of skills that could have been learnt in high school, industry leaders claimed.
Simon Tully, the president of the Construction Association of Bermuda, and Will Irvine, its executive director, said it was ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2020
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Fiona McWhirter
A woman thanked the public yesterday after hundreds of pairs of sunglasses were donated to help people plagued by eye conditions in poverty-stricken Haiti.
Lucy Willitts said was a “tremendous” response from the public to her drive for shades after s...
DATE: Dec 21, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
Schoolchildren contributed more than 1,400 hours to help charities in work that included support for a food bank and caring for wildlife.
The 14 to 18-year-olds have earned $30,000 for each of their schools in PartnerRe’s Dollars for Hours programme....
DATE: Dec 19, 2019
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Fiona McWhirter
A petition to block the permanent shutdown of a middle school had more than 130 signatures by last night.
The change.org petition warned the closure of Warwick’s TN Tatem Middle School, shut in April due to mould and other health and safety problems...
DATE: Dec 14, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter