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Traffic was backed up across the island after police and the Royal Bermuda Regiment carried out spot checks yesterday for people in breach of Covid-19 quarantine rules.
Queues of cars formed on East Broadway and Corkscrew Hill as well as at Barnes Co...
DATE: Mar 25, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Fiona McWhirter
A private school has cancelled exams in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Bermuda High School said that international examination bodies had pulled the plug on Cambridge and Pearson/Edexcel IGCSE and GCSE examinations worldwide have also been cancel...
DATE: Mar 24, 2020
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Other
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The Government got its sums wrong when it provided figures on pupil test results in mathematics, science and English, an official has admitted.
The Department of Education confirmed that the national average Cambridge Checkpoint assessment results f...
DATE: Mar 23, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Bermuda ranked fifth among 35 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development for the percentage of the population that held a university degree four years ago, new figures have revealed.
The Population and Housing Census Educa...
DATE: Mar 23, 2020
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Free online activities to keep pupils occupied over the schools shutdown are to be set up by private sector educational organisations.
BrainHub Learning Centre, Planet Math and the Bermuda Principles Foundation will offer activities sessions from Mo...
DATE: Mar 20, 2020
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Other
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A plan to allow public school pupils to learn at home if schools are closed is being drawn up, the acting education commissioner said yesterday.
Llewellyn Simmons added that the goal was to keep public schools open.
Dr Simmons said that the Departme...
DATE: Mar 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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Work continues to allow public school pupils to continue their studies despite schools being shuttered, the national security minister said today.
Wayne Caines said that the Ministry of Education was “working towards implementing remote learning for...
DATE: Mar 19, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Pupils from private schools closed amid fears about Covid-19 are still required to “be in school” during class hours, the education minister warned yesterday.
Diallo Rabain said in a letter sent to at least one private school that he had received “n...
DATE: Mar 18, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Health
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Three private sector schools are to keep pupils away and move to remote learning amid fears about Covid-19, it was revealed yesterday.
Bermuda High School for Girls was closed yesterday after a pupil was screened for the disease.
The secondary schoo...
DATE: Mar 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Education
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David Burt, the Premier, spoke to the country last night on the Government’s continued preparations in the growing Covid-19 crisis.
What follows is the full text:
Good evening everyone
The virus known as Covid-19 or the coronavirus, is having a trem...
DATE: Mar 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
News Staff