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A schoolboy is to get a second chance of an exhibition to showcase his artistic talent after an earlier event was shelved because of Covid-19. Freda Trimm, a teacher at Paget Primary School, had hoped to hold an exhibition in April, Autism Awareness...

Worried teachers said yesterday they feared problems with the school bus service when the new term started because of Covid-19 safety rules. It is expected that students will be required to stick to social-distancing rules on reduced capacity buses w...

The biometric identification required for Canadian visa applicants in Bermuda is not available locally because of a travel ban on Canadian public servants caused by the pandemic. The service, which is mandatory for foreign students, had formerly been...

Legal changes are needed to standardise the appointment of future education commissioners, the shadow education minister said yesterday. Cole Simons added that the Court of Appeal ruling in the case of veteran teacher and education official Gina Tuck...

The Commissioner of Education has sent a letter to teachers and parents of public-school children with an update on pandemic return-to-school rules. Kalmar Richards confirmed that “extremely vulnerable students and staff” would work on a remote basi...

The former head of a parent teacher association has collected more than 6,500 signatures in support of the reinstatement of a black history course in schools. Ruth Moran said she fought to keep Melodye Micëre Van Putten’s “Ashay: Rites of Passage” pr...

The Department of Education is to launch a series of webinars and podcasts about public school education. The inaugural webinar takes place as a pilot on Friday afternoon, July 24th 2020, and will delve into a thread of the Social Studies curriculu...

Schoolchildren started their summer with a splash this month as the Aqua Camp programme continued despite Covid-19. The Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo said this year’s camps could not be held at it Flatts headquarters, but young people had been able ...

Schools are on track to reopen in September after a “mammoth task” to create safety rules to reduce the risk of Covid-19, the education minister said yesterday. Diallo Rabain added that social-distancing requirements and a 30-minute health check ever...

Daina Casling was worried about her daughter’s education when The Reading Clinic was forced to switch to online tutoring during the Covid-19 pandemic. She need not have been concerned — like many of the other children involved with the education char...