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Legal changes are needed to standardise the appointment of future education commissioners, the shadow education minister said yesterday. Cole Simons added that the Court of Appeal ruling in the case of veteran teacher and education official Gina Tuck...

Fifteen pieces of legislation will be up for debate in the House of Assembly today as Members of Parliament meet for the last time before the summer break. A Bill to raise the debt ceiling is among the items to be debated. If passed, the amendment to...

A veteran teacher and education official said yesterday she was disappointed but not embittered, after a court rejected her bid to overturn the appointment of the Commissioner of Education. Gina Tucker had argued that she was not given a fair opportu...

A prototype for the phasing out of middle schools was unveiled in parliament today. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, outlined “sweeping positive changes” for a two-tier education system along with the introduction of signature schools. Mr ...

The Commissioner of Education has sent a letter to teachers and parents of public-school children with an update on pandemic return-to-school rules. Kalmar Richards confirmed that “extremely vulnerable students and staff” would work on a remote basi...

The former head of a parent teacher association has collected more than 6,500 signatures in support of the reinstatement of a black history course in schools. Ruth Moran said she fought to keep Melodye Micëre Van Putten’s “Ashay: Rites of Passage” pr...

The Bermuda Hospitals Board’s Chief of Staff will be its next chief executive and president, it was announced yesterday. Michael Richmond will take over the job from Venetta Symonds as she takes early retirement this month after eight years in the po...

The Department of Education is to launch a series of webinars and podcasts about public school education. The inaugural webinar takes place as a pilot on Friday afternoon, July 24th 2020, and will delve into a thread of the Social Studies curriculu...

A historic fort in St George’s may soon reopen to the public after a restoration project. The St George’s Foundation restored the Martello Tower and the nearby gunpowder magazine property at Ferry Point Park in St George’s. The foundation had asked f...

Legislation to wipe convictions for possession of small amounts cannabis off the records was tabled in the House of Assembly. The Expungement of Convictions Act was designed to remove the stigma of past convictions for people who were caught with sma...