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The head of the island’s teachers union has slammed a decision to dock the wages of teachers who took industrial action in February. Nishanthi Bailey, the president of the Bermuda Union of Teachers, said that she had “no other option than to withdraw...

Part of a childcare programme for essential services workers will be up and running today, the Minister of Education pledged this week. Diallo Rabain said that the programme, designed for children aged 5 and 6, would be held at the Sammy Wilson Centr...

School staff were saluted for their hard work in the Covid-19 crisis by the education minister. Diallo Rabain said that a lot had been asked of public school principals, teachers and support workers in these “unprecedented times”. He told them in a ...

Almost three quarters of public primary schools ranked as poor or very poor in maths based on the average pupil score in a test sat last year, it has been revealed. Two schools, Heron Bay, in Southampton, and Paget Primary, had an average pupil scor...

The Government got its sums wrong when it provided figures on pupil test results in mathematics, science and English, an official has admitted. The Department of Education confirmed that the national average Cambridge Checkpoint assessment results f...

A plan to allow public school pupils to learn at home if schools are closed is being drawn up, the acting education commissioner said yesterday. Llewellyn Simmons added that the goal was to keep public schools open. Dr Simmons said that the Departme...

Three private sector schools are to keep pupils away and move to remote learning amid fears about Covid-19, it was revealed yesterday. Bermuda High School for Girls was closed yesterday after a pupil was screened for the disease. The secondary schoo...

Public schools will remain open as Bermuda prepares to do battle with Covid-19, the Government announced this afternoon. A spokeswoman for the Department of Education said that the Government was “taking preventive and protective measures, working cl...

Bermuda is too small for signature schools to have a solitary focus, the education minister announced. Diallo Rabain said the island was “not of the scale” where planned signature, or specialised, schools would be able to concentrate on “one special...

An international firm has been selected to help rebuild Bermuda’s public education system, the education minister announced yesterday. Diallo Rabain said that consultancy Innovation Unit Australia New Zealand had been selected after a request for pr...