1230 results returned for search: "education AND " author Sarah Lagan
Historian Walton Brown is launching a series of six lectures designed to improve local knowledge of Bermuda history right up to the modern day.
Mr Brown, the Progressive Labour Party MP, launched “Understanding Modern Bermuda” after the popularity o...
DATE: Sep 03, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
Excerpts from seven episodes of Ocean Vet starring the late Neil Burnie will be screened over the next two months at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.
The series, which has attracted interest from some of the world’s major networks, incl...
DATE: Sep 03, 2015
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The transfers of some 30 teachers and six principals are hanging in the balance less than two weeks before the start of the new school term as arguments rumble in the courts over whether parents were properly consulted about the moves.
The Bermuda Pa...
DATE: Aug 28, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
“Children must come first,” was the message from Minister of Education Wayne Scott yesterday as he welcomed a court decision allowing teachers and principals to go ahead with their transfers.
Mr Scott spoke to The Royal Gazette outside the Civil Cour...
DATE: Aug 28, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association claims the Ministry of Education wants to “fatally wound” it with planned changes to the education system.
Harry Matthie, the association’s chairman, said the ministry intended to turn the BPTSA and othe...
DATE: Aug 27, 2015
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Education
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Sarah Lagan
A judge has questioned the timing of an attempt to block teacher and principal transfers — two weeks before the new school term.
The Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association was in Civil Court yesterday to seek a judicial review against the Ministr...
DATE: Aug 26, 2015
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Education
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Sarah Lagan
A race relations event being held next Monday is to feature a host of local historians, authors and politicians.
The University of Oxford recently acquired a collection of books about the history of race and resistance in Bermuda, and the event is b...
DATE: Aug 25, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
Senator Vic Ball met with eight of the 2015 Summer Employment Programme students to discuss their experiences at a lunch hosted by the Department of Workforce Development.
Some 102 Bermudian college and university interns were placed throughout Gov...
DATE: Aug 23, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
Schools face “utter chaos” at the start of term if an attempt to block teacher transfers succeeds, according to union leader Mike Charles.
The Royal Gazette understands the Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association has filed an injunction to challen...
DATE: Aug 21, 2015
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Sarah Lagan
A team of world-class big wave surfers has been in Bermuda taking a highly technical life-saving and freediving course that could become part of Team Oracle’s safety training ahead of the America’s Cup.
Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill took the eight-da...
DATE: Aug 17, 2015
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Event
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Sarah Lagan
