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The literacy services of the Reading Clinic, where demand has soared, have been buoyed by a $10,000 donation from Axis Capital Holdings Limited.
The grant will support the charity’s services, including assessment and tutoring for children with learni...
DATE: Jul 14, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
School infrastructures have crumbled, ministers have repeatedly been chopped and changed, and students’ ever-evolving technological needs, according to many, have been neglected.
The past decade has not been particularly kind to Bermuda’s public edu...
DATE: Jul 12, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The future of middle schools — introduced two decades ago under the United Bermuda Party — is a topic that continues to divide opinion.
The Progressive Labour Party has pledged to phase them out, saying it would introduce signature schools at the sec...
DATE: Jul 12, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Two “hard-working and serious young women”, Maya Palacio and Caroline Skinner, have been awarded the English Speaking Union scholarships for 2017/18.
A global organisation, the ESU is dedicated to helping others to share their views, and the local br...
DATE: Jul 12, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Warwick Academy students will pack their bags later this year to pursue further studies at some of the most respected universities in the world after the school announced an “outstandingly successful” set of International Baccalaureate results.
Pupil...
DATE: Jul 11, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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A Bermuda High School student has become one of the 0.3 per cent of students worldwide to earn top marks in their International Baccalaureate Diploma.
Brianna Mendes scored 45 points out of 45 as BHS announced record results for its 2017 IB candidate...
DATE: Jul 11, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Students at East End Primary School have graduated from the school’s first Braille Club and the student who initiated the programme hopes it will spread to other schools.
Big-hearted P6 prefect Ronique Trott came up with the idea to launch the club w...
DATE: Jul 03, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Bermudian students knew they would run into different people through the Up With People group.
But they didn’t realise that they could come to such an understanding with others despite not fully understanding or agreeing with them.
Seven students...
DATE: Jul 03, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Michael Dunkley has turned down a request to meet with the Bermuda Union of Teachers to address a breakdown in negotiations over conditions.
The BUT requested a meeting with the Premier after voting in favour of a motion to work to rule last week, c...
DATE: Jun 29, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Making robots out of Lego, building workable boats and playing instruments made entirely out of trash were among the activities presented by students at Bermuda High School yesterday as part of their Steam Week projects.
The school hall was abuzz wi...
DATE: Jun 28, 2017
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CATEGORY:
Education
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