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CedarBridge Academy students were unable to get to their practice SAT exams on time this week because of continuing disruptions to their school bus service.
“Major concerns” have been raised by staff, parents and students that they will miss, or be ...
DATE: Mar 18, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Education should be depoliticised to make it “about the children, not the adults”, according to outgoing minister Wayne Scott.
An independent entity similar to the Bermuda Tourism Authority should be considered to stop politics getting in the way of ...
DATE: Mar 03, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Education standards expert Paul Wagstaff, who was the front-runner for the role of Commissioner of Education, has declined the position, this newspaper understands.
Mr Wagstaff, who has a history in school improvement and advisory services in Britain...
DATE: Feb 23, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Staff at eight schools have been picking up the pieces and trying to figure out how their security can be improved in light of numerous break-ins over the past month.
According to police there has been a spate of 11 incidences across primary, middle ...
DATE: Feb 15, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda’s preschool students will become critical and independent thinkers through a new model of learning according to Llewellyn Simmons, the Director of Academics at the Ministry of Education.
The Early Childhood Inquiry Model, introduced by the mi...
DATE: Jan 27, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Bermuda High School for Girls has shared further incriminating details with parents about the teacher who was removed from the institution for falsifying his credentials, references and employment records. The school’s principal, Linda Parker, descri...
DATE: Jan 05, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Purvis Primary School has come under fire from parents over claims children had been made to line up en masse in the parking lot throughout morning recess and eat fruit quietly until class resumes.
One parent said she was “shocked” at “the antiquated...
DATE: Dec 10, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Students at TN Tatem Middle School will be temporarily relocated at Clearwater Middle School, beginning on Thursday, over safety concerns about air quality.
The Department of Education announced this evening that administrators would help both school...
DATE: Dec 05, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Teachers and parents of students attending T.N. Tatem Middle School staged a sit-in protest yesterday after a report claimed that mould in the building posed no immediate threat to health.
Protesters insisted that the school needed to be closed and s...
DATE: Dec 02, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Education minister Wayne Scott has promised facility inspections at each of the island’s public middle schools, after a teacher walkout at T.N. Tatem Middle School this week over mould issues.
The announcement came as a health and safety report foun...
DATE: Nov 30, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan