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Easter camps were grounded this month due to Covid-19 – but youngsters got a virtual voyage at sea. The Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute presented the free presentations from April 5 to April 9 which took on children, some as far away as Sout...

Teachers have defended taking tomorrow as a half-term break – and fired a broadside at the Department of Education. The Bermuda Union of Teachers said the Government request to use the holiday to catch up on lessons lost because of the coronavirus cl...

The island’s private schools have announced the cancellation of this year’s IGCSE and International Baccalaureate exams in the face of ongoing restrictions against Covid-19. Public schools earlier this month had the Cambridge Checkpoint exams called ...

School students could be learning remotely until May, the Education Minister said yesterday. Diallo Rabain, the education minister, said the closing of public and private schools to in-house learning from Monday was done on the advice of the Educati...

All schools are to be closed to in-house learning with the move coming into effect from next Monday until April 23, as a measure against the spread of the coronavirus. The health order moving schools to remote learning will be announced at the 5.30pm...

Routine saliva testing for the coronavirus is to be expanded in the island’s public school system, according to Diallo Rabain, the education minister. Mr Rabain said last night that a pilot school testing programme had found “two positive cases which...

The first step in the biggest change in decades in Bermuda’s public education system has been approved by MPs. Senior level “signature schools” required to offer one or more “signature learning programmes” will be introduced under the changes. Diallo...

Pembroke students were yesterday warned “not to wait until the last minute” to apply for the Parish Council’s annual scholarship and grants for study at Bermuda College. The PPC is now accepting applications, which are limited to high school leavers ...

High school pupils were today invited to apply for the Department of Workforce Development’s summer internship programme. Applicants must be aged 15 to 18 on of July 1 and able to commit to the whole of July to be eligible. Applications can be made a...

Tomorrow will mark the last meeting on a shake-up of the primary school system. Three parishes – Hamilton Parish, Smith’s and Warwick – will be up for discussion. A spokeswoman for the education ministry said it was an issue of national importance. S...