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TN Tatem Middle School is a “sick building”, according to the Bermuda Union of Teachers, which defended staff for their sick-out on Monday. The union thanked the Government for commissioning a facilities inspection report, but pointed out that it was...

Teachers and parents of students attending T.N. Tatem Middle School staged a sit-in protest yesterday after a report claimed that mould in the building posed no immediate threat to health. Protesters insisted that the school needed to be closed and s...

Education minister Wayne Scott has promised facility inspections at each of the island’s public middle schools, after a teacher walkout at T.N. Tatem Middle School this week over mould issues. The announcement came as a health and safety report foun...

Bermuda College is set to launch a weeklong solar panel installation course after 15 students completed a successful pilot class. Joseph Weeks, co-owner of the company Combined Engineering Technologies, will offer the programme to certified electrici...

Former member of the School Reorganisation Committee, Danielle Riviere, has questioned the extent of structural problems across the island’s middle schools after the closure of T.N. Tatem Middle School yesterday owing to mould issues. Ms Riviere, wh...

The TN Tatem Middle School premises are safe to be occupied, according to a report from the Government health and safety officer. Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education, said the facilities inspection report concluded that while there was no imminent...

Teachers called in sick en masse yesterday at the T.N. Tatem Middle School as friction escalated over air quality. The “sick-out”, which is believed to have involved all but two teachers, appeared to take the school by surprise as students came in fo...

An information session for parents is to be held on Wednesday of next week on standards-based grading, which is being introduced throughout public schools. The system, which will be implemented from the primary through senior school levels, is aimed ...

Somersfield Academy will be hosting a Walk Our Journey event as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations. The public is invited to take part in the fundraising 5.39-mile walk or run beginning at the site of the school’s first home, Tivoli Field, War...

Ending the practice of social promotion in schools will ensure that students can develop “suitably and adequately” in the public system, according to Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education. Mr Scott told a press conference this morning that the polic...