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The Island’s senior school students have been challenged to express themselves on the theme of thankfulness with the chance at a $1,000 grant. Any secondary school student is eligible for the Tom Pettit Thanksgiving Essay Competition, now in its 14th...
DATE: Oct 11, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Teachers were congratulated, and the media castigated, at a ceremony honouring World Teacher’s Day.
Commending the Cambridge exam results announced this week for public schools students, Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) President Keisha Douglas told t...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A row has broken out over what constitutes a pass for the IGCSE exams taken by Bermuda secondary school students.
Educators evaluating IGCSE results for Bermuda’s public schools have said the more rigorous C grade is the internationally accepted mea...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Students in public secondary schools received a grade of C or above in slightly more than half of the Cambridge IGCSE exams they took this year, Government revealed yesterday.
This is the first year a substantial number of public school students hav...
DATE: Oct 04, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sandys Secondary Middle School yesterday announced two of its students had scored A grades in GCSE maths.
School principal Tim Jackson said a total of 19 students aged 13 and 14 sat the secondary-level exams in June at the Berkeley Institute.
Ninetee...
DATE: Sep 17, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Bermuda Public Services Union has vowed “a public demonstration of epic proportions” if the Berkeley Institute’s board of governors go ahead with a proposal to cut more than half the school’s support staff.
BPSU vice president Jason Hayward said yest...
DATE: Aug 23, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
International Baccalaureate results have been announced for the Bermuda High School (BHS).
Head of School Linda Parker said: “We are delighted to report that our IB Diploma results were superlative this year, our highest score being 44 points out of ...
DATE: Jul 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Three teachers at Teen Services have been laid off, and the charity has been forced to suspend its Continuation School this September.
Teen Service’s board of directors said its decades-old alternative education service had been hit by funding cuts.
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DATE: Jul 15, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Graduates of Teen Services’ Continuation School programme were honoured at a special ceremony recently.
Fourteen students graduated from the school this year.
Their efforts were celebrated with a ceremony at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institu...
DATE: Jul 07, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Mount St Agnes Academy (MSA) is now in the final stages of adopting a new curriculum, according to school principal Susan Moench.
She told Hamilton Rotary Club that the widely-accepted Alberta curriculum suited a school where the majority of students...
DATE: Jun 02, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
