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The Bermuda High School has declared “outstanding” results for its 2016 International Baccalaureate diploma, with 29 graduates out of 30 entered for the full diploma — 25 of whom were successful.
The BHS average score for those achieving the full dip...
DATE: Jul 12, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Bermuda Government’s summer employment programme is helping 95 college and university students further their careers, the House of Assembly heard this morning.
Patricia Gordon-Pamplin, the Minister of Home Affairs, also told legislators that a su...
DATE: Jul 08, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Dancing robots and solar stoves got showcased on Tuesday as the Bermuda High School wrapped up a week of science.
Recovered materials from the Tynes Bay dump were turned into stoves, while other students put together robot cars able to carry out a ra...
DATE: Jun 30, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Low turnout at last week’s referendum shows that Bermudians have deeper worries than same-sex unions, according to the LGBTQ group OUTBermuda.
While voters turned down both same-sex marriage and civil unions, too few showed at the polls for the refer...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Same-Sex Marriage
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The latest school year has come to a close with nearly 50,000 breakfasts given to public school students by the Coalition for the Protection of Children.
It marks the agency’s ninth year running its breakfast programme — and, appropriately enough, a ...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government’s disputed airport redevelopment contract is to be investigated by a Commission of Inquiry along with contentious projects of the past — such as Bermuda Emissions Control and GlobalHue.
That independent body, which held its first publi...
DATE: Jun 28, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
In a first, a group of Bermuda High School students got to spend the few days before summer break tackling science projects at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
The trip was part of the school’s second annual Steam week, for Science,...
DATE: Jun 27, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Teachers union leader Mike Charles has condemned the Minister of Education’s “lame” plan to address serious failings in the public school system.
“Once again, we have a minister planning to have a plan,” said Mr Charles yesterday of Wayne Scott’s rev...
DATE: Jun 18, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
School closures or mergers have been definitively ruled out by Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education, for the coming academic year.
“Absolutely not” said Mr Scott of the 2016/17 year — after lingering worries from parents that consolidations were i...
DATE: Jun 16, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
“Each time you want to let go, you can’t,” said Neletha Butterfield of her long tenure at Care Learning Centre, the school that she founded 33 years ago in her basement.
Ms Butterfield, a former Government minister, still puts in her ten-week teachin...
DATE: Jun 15, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell