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Bermuda-based Legal & General Reinsurance (“L&G Re”) today launched the ‘Lighthouse Connect’ fund at the Bermuda Community Foundation in partnership with the Mirrors Programme to raise funds to provide free laptops to all Bermuda public school studen...

Schools will not reopen on Monday, despite plans to lighten restrictions. David Burt, the Premier, said on Twitter last night that the Cabinet had approved a “phased reopening plan”, which will be detailed tonight. But he added: “There is no plan to ...

The Bermuda Education Network has launched a revamped website to support to teachers and parents as schools remain closed by Covid-19. Becky Ausenda, BEN’s executive director, said that public primary school pupils had been asked by teachers to crea...

School closures caused by the Covid-19 crisis have not led to substantial cost savings, the private education sector has said. Linda Parker, head of school at Bermuda High School, said that although BHS had been closed since March 18 “no significant...

Pupils will not be expected to learn from home tomorrow, the Commissioner of Education said. Kalmar Richards said that April 24 was normally set aside for pupils in the Bermuda Agricultural Show. She added in a letter to parents: “It is also recogn...

Advanced Placement exams will go ahead in an abridged, online form, despite the cancellation of other international exams. Jon Beard, the Deputy Head of School at Saltus, said today the AP exams organised by the US College Board and undertaken by stu...

The new head boy and head girl at a school have plans to keep up the community spirit while remote learning is in place. Noah da Silva and McKenzie-Kohl Tuckett, both 16, will help co-ordinate online social activities while shelter-in-place regulatio...

Public school pupils will restart remote learning on Monday, the Minister of Education said. Diallo Rabain explained that senior schools would continue to instruct pupils on “essential curriculum for each of the courses students are currently taking”...

A healthcare grant awards scheme has been set up in memory of a top eye surgeon who died last year, aged 64. The Bermuda International Institute of Ophthalmology created the scholarship in honour of the late Leonard Teye-Botchway. The BIIO fund was d...

A decision to end remote learning for public school pupils was made by the Government, not teachers, their union said yesterday. A spokesman for the Bermuda Union of Teachers said that “no individual teacher or school made the decision to suspend re...