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The transfers of some 30 teachers and six principals are hanging in the balance less than two weeks before the start of the new school term as arguments rumble in the courts over whether parents were properly consulted about the moves. The Bermuda Pa...

“Children must come first,” was the message from Minister of Education Wayne Scott yesterday as he welcomed a court decision allowing teachers and principals to go ahead with their transfers. Mr Scott spoke to The Royal Gazette outside the Civil Cour...

The Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association claims the Ministry of Education wants to “fatally wound” it with planned changes to the education system. Harry Matthie, the association’s chairman, said the ministry intended to turn the BPTSA and othe...

The Pembroke Rotary Club has donated back-to-school supplies to foster children. The club gave 50 backpacks filled with stationery and other items to the Bermuda Foster Parents’ Association. Working with the Department of Child and Family Services, t...

Summer maintenance work at the Island’s schools is nearly complete and they will be open on time for the new term, Wayne Scott, the Minister of Education, has assured the public. However, the ministry is still working to fill “one or two” vacancies b...

A judge has questioned the timing of an attempt to block teacher and principal transfers — two weeks before the new school term. The Bermuda Parent Teacher Student Association was in Civil Court yesterday to seek a judicial review against the Ministr...

Bermuda Government scholarships and awards have gone out to 47 students. The awards, given out earlier this month, include teacher training, mature student and further education awards as well as Bermuda Government scholarships. Eight students receiv...

A Bermudian student is taking an unprecedented look at the origins of the Island’s distinctive dialect. Rosemary Hall has spoken to dozens of residents and trawled through the archives as part of her extensive MPhil thesis on the evolution of “Bermud...

Four Bermudian students have been awarded $10,000 in scholarships to further their aspirations in interior design. The field entails far more than selecting fabrics or colours, according to the Bermuda Society of Interior Designers, which presented t...

Rules have been unveiled covering parental input at public-funded primary and middle schools in time for the coming school year. The rules, which complement Parent-Teacher Associations, give parents the autonomy to make their own advisory councils an...