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The views of about 1,000 members of the community were released by the government in the Parish Primary School Consultation Submissions report.
Comments were made in favour of and against the government’s Parish Primary School Plan.
The vast majorit...
DATE: Sep 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Members of the community hoping to save their schools put forward several alternatives to closure during the consultation on parish primary schools.
Elliot Primary School in Devonshire was the only school originally slated for closure under the Paris...
DATE: Sep 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
“Grave concerns” were raised about students with special needs being separated from mainstream pupils, the consultation report has revealed.
Anonymous submissions were recently made public in the Parish Primary School Decisions report.
“There is grav...
DATE: Sep 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Government has prioritised public service, community and commercial use for the buildings that will be left after eight public primary schools close.
Alternative future uses for the sites were detailed in the Parish Primary School Decisions repo...
DATE: Sep 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A philanthropic family have announced scholarships for 13 Bermudian students in partnership with the Knowledge Quest educational charity.
The Green Family Scholarship Fund gives the awards on the basis of need and academic capability, with priority t...
DATE: Sep 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Premier’s Question Time is scheduled for today as MPs return to the House of Assembly after the summer break.
David Burt, the Premier, will also deliver a speech on “moving beyond the pandemic” and Kim Wilson, the health minister, will table a fifth ...
DATE: Sep 10, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has accused Government of poor planning after it closed schools at short notice.
Public school pupils were due to go back to the classroom today for the start of the new academic year.
But on Tuesday Diallo Rabain,...
DATE: Sep 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Employers have been asked to be considerate to staff whose children will return to remote learning this week because of the increase in Covid-19 cases.
Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said: “We want parents to know that we recognise that th...
DATE: Sep 09, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The island’s Covid-19 death toll has risen to 35, it was announced last night.
Health officials added that 225 new cases of the coronavirus had been detected among 10,984 test results that had come back since the last update – a positivity rate of 2 ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Public schools will hold remote lessons when children go back to school on Thursday in the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases.
The ruling was made after a meeting of the Education Emergency Measures Committee (EEMC) today.
Diallo Rabain, the education...
DATE: Sep 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan