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A prison guard who befriended anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela when he was behind bars for 27 years has delivered a virtual talk at a Bermudian school.
Christo Brand, a guard at the maximum security jail on Robben Island, off Cape Town, South Afric...
DATE: Sep 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Ministry Education has released a list showing schools and their level of consent to the saliva screening programme against Covid-19.
The figures are from Monday. All public schools remain on remote learning until further notice.
Diallo Rabain, ...
DATE: Sep 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Success in one of the few external exams to survive the pandemic lockdown was today celebrated by a private school.
Recent graduates from Saltus passed the international Advanced Placement exams, administered by the College Board.
The school said 77 ...
DATE: Sep 23, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A private school has shut down because of the Covid-19 crisis after just one day back.
Saltus Grammar School said that although its secondary school returned only yesterday, senior pupils would move to remote learning for two weeks from today.
Primar...
DATE: Sep 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A total of ten finalists are in the running for a teacher of the year award.
The teachers up for the Outstanding Teacher Award, organised by the Bermuda Education Network, were nominated by colleagues and the educational charity asked parents, pupils...
DATE: Sep 21, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
The Ministry of Health had found cases of exposure to the coronavirus at a string of the island’s schools.
Diallo Rabain, the education minister, said exposures had been found at the Bermuda Institute, Saltus Grammar School, Warwick Academy, Mount Sa...
DATE: Sep 20, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A student said she was “over the moon” after she was offered more than half a million dollars in scholarships.
Tierrai Tull, 20, could only accept three of the seven grants she was given because of awards policy.
But she said the remainder was still...
DATE: Sep 17, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A new pressure group yesterday questioned Covid public safety policies that affect schoolchildren – including an insistence on masks in classrooms.
Us For Them Bermuda was set up last week to give children “a voice” and ensure that “their interests a...
DATE: Sep 15, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A project developer to draw up a plan for the shake-up of the island’s school system is being looked for by the Government.
A Request For Proposal was published last week that asked consultancy firms to submit “a strategic programme and project devel...
DATE: Sep 14, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Public schools are to remain off-limits until further notice after a surge in Covid-19 cases, it was confirmed this weekend.
The news came after the Government announced last week that schools would return to remote learning for the first week of ter...
DATE: Sep 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan