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                                    Online enrolment for parents to register their children for the next school year has opened, the education ministry announced yesterday.
Registration options through the new PowerSchool online enrolment were released for preschool, primary school and...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 15, 2022
                 
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Sékou Hendrickson 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    A Merchant Navy Officer Cadet at college in the UK is destined for a life on the ocean waves after he secured a job as a junior officer with a billion-dollar plus shipping company.
Marcus Simmons, from Warwick, was offered the trainee role with UK-ba...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 15, 2022
                 
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Jonathan Bell 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    A maths tutoring centre has teamed up with an asset management firm to launch a scholarship drive to send 500 youngsters to summer maths camps.
Equilibria Capital Management has agreed to fund 50 scholarships and it is hoped that the scholarship driv...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 14, 2022
                 
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                        CATEGORY: 
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Owain Johnston-Barnes 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    Public school pupils will be able to return to the classroom after taking a coronavirus antigen test at home instead of a PCR test.
Tinée Furbert, the Acting Minister of Education, said the change will be phased in from next week.
Antigen tests have ...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 14, 2022
                 
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                        CATEGORY: 
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Gareth Finighan 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    Some pupils at Bermuda High School were learning online this week after pupils tested positive for the coronavirus.
Linda Parker, the head of school, said that staff had done everything it could to keep as many pupils in classrooms as possible.
But s...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 14, 2022
                 
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                        CATEGORY: 
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Fiona McWhirter 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    A traditional charity walk has donated 240 laptops to primary school pupils.
The Bermuda End-to-End Charitable Trust announced this week it had handed over the Chromebooks and protective cases to the Ministry of Education.
Anne Mello, the chairwoman ...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 14, 2022
                 
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                        CATEGORY: 
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Owain Johnston-Barnes 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    A two-day lag for coronavirus test results from the island’s main laboratory is expected to continue, the scientist in charge warned yesterday.
Carika Weldon said that positive cases for the virus at the Molecular Diagnostic and Research Laboratory h...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 12, 2022
                 
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                        CATEGORY: 
                        Education 
                    
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Jonathan Bell 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    More school classes may need to be taught remotely as the Omicron variant of the coronavirus continued to sweep across the island, the Premier said yesterday. 
David Burt was speaking after schools failed to reopen last Wednesday as planned — and the...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 12, 2022
                 
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                        CATEGORY: 
                        Education 
                    
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Sarah Lagan 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    Schoolchildren with their sights set on higher education can now apply for this year’s round of scholarship applications, the Ministry of Education announced today.
Tinée Furbert, the acting education minister, said: “Going off to college or universi...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 12, 2022
                 
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                        CATEGORY: 
                        Education 
                    
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Sékou Hendrickson 
                    
                            
         
         
     
 	
    	
                    
        
                    
                    
            
            
                                    The Government failed to listen to the profession before the “massively botched” reopening of the island’s public schools, the Bermuda Union of Teachers said yesterday.
Nishanthi Bailey, the BUT president, said teachers had been “bullied” by the educ...                            
            
                
                    DATE: Jan 08, 2022
                 
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                        CATEGORY: 
                        Education 
                    
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                        AUTHOR: 
                        Owain Johnston-Barnes