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Blockchain education in Bermuda is to get a boost through a new partnership between ConnecTech and MLG Blockchain.
Under the strategic partnership, MLG Blockchain, a global consulting and development firm, will provide educational blockchain worksho...
DATE: Sep 17, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
A forum to discuss the establishment of a sex offenders register is to be held tomorrow.
The open mike night at the Astwood Arms pub on Hamilton’s Front Street will be hosted by Robyn Swan, a One Bermuda Alliance senator, and Dany Pen, a member of th...
DATE: Sep 17, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s new education tsar must quiz the Government about its plan to axe middle schools, the shadow education minister said today.
Cole Simons added just-appointed Kalmar Richards, the new Commissioner of Education, had to “bring some depth” to t...
DATE: Sep 17, 2018
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The Paget Parish Council has announced the recipients of its scholarship and bursary awards for Paget students studying abroad.
Scholarships are based on academic excellence and financial need and the Bermudian students must have been residents of...
DATE: Sep 17, 2018
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Staff at a drug prevention charity have completed an international training course designed to help youngsters cope better at school.
Lisa Brewster, Marina Sousa and Samantha Smith of Pride completed the affiliate trainer course in the Promoting Alt...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
Staff from the Fairmont Southampton helped to spruce up a primary school in preparation for the start of the new school year.
Thirteen hotel employees worked at the parish’s Heron Bay Primary School as part of their back-to-school community service ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
A plan to axe middle schools in favour of specialist “signature” schools has to be backed with hard facts, a top international academic warned yesterday.
Peter Cookson, senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute, based in Washington DC, said ...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018
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A scientist dubbed “a robotics legend” by business magazine Forbes is to make a presentation at a major conference in Bermuda.
Ayanna Howard will discuss whether humans should trust robots at the TEDx event next month.
Dr Howard is a lecturer, rese...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018
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Sarah Lagan
Patrina O’Connor-Paynter and Ellen-Kate Horton have joined the appointments committee of the Media Council of Bermuda.
Ms Paynter, also known as PowerGirl, will serve as the committee chair.
They will join Myra Virgil, who has served on the on the co...
DATE: Sep 14, 2018
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Jonathan Bell
Bermuda’s new education chief must fix the island’s public schools, which are failing young black men, a former acting commissioner said.
Lou Matthews said Kalmar Richards faced a variety of problems.
He added that the island had to make a “radical ...
DATE: Sep 13, 2018
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