1146 results returned for search: "education AND " author Jonathan Bell
Nearly 100 career-minded high school students have been put through their professional paces, at the third annual Youth Harvesting Conference with one selected to represent Bermuda this spring in New York.
Organiser Sarah Fellows said Bermuda High Sc...
DATE: Oct 11, 2011
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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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Education
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Jonathan Bell
Pembroke residents have united to salvage a stretch of Pembroke Canal on behalf of an elderly animal-lover.
Pensioner Harry Outerbridge, 85, wants to see the ducks return to the waters that flow past his Pitts Bay Road home.
For 35 years, Mr Outerbri...
DATE: Oct 11, 2011
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Environment
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Jonathan Bell
Bermudians are curbing their appetite for fried food, according to a survey of the Island’s health trends but four out of five adults are now watching more than two hours of television each day.
Since 2006, fast food consumption fell a total of five ...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011
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Health
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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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Education
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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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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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Education
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s educational system needs to up its ante when it comes to technical studies, Bermuda College dean Llew Trott has warned. Mr Trott spoke before Hamilton Rotary Club, in advance of the College’s hosting of Science Week on October 19 and 20.
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DATE: Sep 29, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s Miss World contender Jana Outerbridge will be dressed to kill at the world pageant in London, with help from local sponsors AS Cooper and Sons.
Ms Outerbridge is to set off for London on October 18 and take on the world on November 6, at th...
DATE: Sep 29, 2011
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Jonathan Bell
Warwick cricketer Kian Butterfield had an excellent reason to miss last week’s trophy presentation with his team Cleveland County.
As his fellow players celebrated winning the First Division 50-over championship, Kian headed overseas to pursue his de...
DATE: Sep 24, 2011
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