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Public primary school pupils got to benefit from an intensive educational summer camp thanks to a collaboration between two organisations.
The Bermuda Education Network, for the second year, teamed up with the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institut...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A bid to increase the use of libraries was launched this month.
The Bermuda National Library is to run Library Card Sign Up Month throughout September, with the chance of winning a Kindle Fire.
The library will collaborate with The Friends of the Lib...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
News
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Campaigners have not given up hope of saving an historic school threatened with closure in an overhaul of public education.
Phil Perinchief, a former PLP Attorney-General who attended the West End Primary School, said there was “talk of forming a gr...
DATE: Sep 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, said the Government was committed to strengthen relationships with the island’s unions in the face of an ongoing dispute over decertification.
Mr Hayward said in his Labour Day message: “Despite recent challenge...
DATE: Sep 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Saltus Middle and Senior schools will not welcome students back to campus this week after more than 40 staff had potential Covid-19 exposure.
However the school’s Cavendish and Upper Primary departments will open as scheduled.
In a notice sent out ye...
DATE: Sep 07, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Government is to tighten Covid-19 safety rules in public schools – just 24 hours after it claimed that stricter regulations were not needed.
The announcement came after one public school – the Bermuda Institute – revealed tonight that it will be ...
DATE: Sep 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Bermuda’s Rhodes scholar traditionally gets a sendoff in the US before they begin their studies.
But the pandemic meant a home ceremony for Kenza Wilks, 22, who headed yesterday for Rhodes House at the University of Oxford.
Christie Hunter-Arscott, t...
DATE: Sep 03, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Children returning to school next week will have to wear masks throughout the day, according to Covid-19 safety protocols.
Diallo Rabain, the minister of education, outlined the measures that will be required for public school students when the new t...
DATE: Sep 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Ministry of Education staff member working towards a Masters in Public Policy and Management was named the winner of the 2021 Bermuda Government Bursary Award.
Taneesha Ottley, who studies at the University of York, said her goal was to become a se...
DATE: Sep 02, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Four Covid-19 phases for school protocols have been drawn up by the Ministry of Education as pupils head back this month for their third academic year under the pandemic.
According to the revised criteria, shared internally last week, schools would b...
DATE: Sep 01, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell