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The Impact Mentoring Academy is accepting applications for the upcoming academic year.
The academy offers an alternative to mainstream education with a mission to challenge young men to discover and develop their potential.
It aims to empower its st...
DATE: Aug 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Somersfield Academy’s first class of International Baccalaureate diploma graduates passed the programme with flying colours, the school said yesterday.
The class of 12 pupils had a 100 per cent pass rate – much higher than this year’s global pass rat...
DATE: Aug 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Business advice firm KPMG is working on a professional development plan for staff at The Berkeley Institute ahead of the school becoming one of the island’s first two signature schools.
Working with The Berkeley Institute’s Signature School Transiti...
DATE: Aug 04, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Cambridge curriculum should be scrapped under government’s education reform plans, the former principal of St George’s Preparatory School has said.
Mary Lodge said that the relatively low Cambridge Primary Checkpoint results in English, Maths and...
DATE: Aug 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A scholarship that has been supported Bermudians researching the island’s history and culture for 25 years will now help a young marine archaeologist pursue his studies.
Xander Cook, 22, was presented with $6,000 by the Bermuda Historical Society las...
DATE: Aug 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Plans to close West End Primary School in Sandys came under heavy fire last night at a heated town hall meeting in Somerset Cricket Club.
The gathering also delivered an uncommon rebuke to the Progressive Labour Party government, from the party’s own...
DATE: Jul 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A maths whiz reached a new personal best and climbed global records after memorising 20,000 digits of Pi.
Troy Ashby, a maths lecturer at Bermuda College, memorised and wrote the digits non-stop for 24 hours, breaking his previous record of 12,000 di...
DATE: Jul 26, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Parents need more information quickly from government so they can make informed and timely decisions following the formal announcement that eight primary schools will be closed, a Parent Teacher Association president said yesterday.
Juanae Crockwell,...
DATE: Jul 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A Historical Legacy Committee is to be formed to share the history of schools that provided Black children with educational opportunities during racial segregation.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, made the announcement in the House of Asse...
DATE: Jul 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
One of Bermuda’s most successful primary schools will be closed as part of a major overhaul of the public school system.
St George's Preparatory School is one of eight primary schools that will be shut down permanently, Diallo Rabain, the education m...
DATE: Jul 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan