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A public meeting has been called in St David’s to rally opposition to the potential closure of the primary school.
The event, in the school’s assembly hall on Monday at 6.30pm, is in response to an announcement from education minister Wayne Scott tha...
DATE: Feb 11, 2016
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The financial viability of reorganising the island’s primary school system remains unknown as the Bermuda Government-commissioned Score report indicates it was “unable to make an assessment of potential cost savings”.
According to the school reorgan...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
A leading neurosurgeon will be the keynote speaker at next month’s “Docs for Dinner” event, hosted by Bermuda Healthcare Services and Brown-Darrell Clinic.
Keith Black, who has performed some 4,000 brain surgeries, will talk on the “emerging imaging ...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Shadow health minister Lovitta Foggo has branded the Bermuda Government’s plan to potentially close schools as “foolhardy, reckless and irresponsible”.
Ms Foggo was responding to the release this Monday of the full, 196-page school reorganisation (Sc...
DATE: Feb 10, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
Four primary schools could face closure as part of the Bermuda Government’s School Reorganisation (Score) Plan but no decisions have yet been made.
Parents and teachers yesterday voiced concerns over the possible closures of Gilbert Institute, Prospe...
DATE: Feb 09, 2016
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
The Bermuda College will this week host a discussion on cultural demographics and education in Bermuda.
The event will feature local educators Mellisa Gibbons-Tankard and John Duncan discussing their published treatises from the first Bermuda College...
DATE: Feb 09, 2016
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Saltus Grammar School students are putting their grand ideas to the test thanks to new 3D printer technology.
The school’s design technology and IT departments started a campaign to purchase the 3D printers, after pupils learned about their capabilit...
DATE: Feb 09, 2016
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A young Bermudian aquarist is making waves in some dangerous waters at the Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada.
Winston Godwin, who used to work at the Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, moved to Toronto a year ago with the help of the Bermuda Zoological Soci...
DATE: Feb 08, 2016
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Primary students got to “play dentist” as part of a fun and educational programme run by Kerin Oral Care.
As part of the practice’s Give Kids a Smile Day, the children learnt about oral hygiene and nutrition, and even got to dress up as dentists.
Eac...
DATE: Feb 06, 2016
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Health
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AUTHOR:
Sarah Lagan
Healthy and able seniors should be allowed to continue working without discrimination, a Human Rights Commission representative declared at a meeting in Hamilton last night.
Sarah Clifford, education officer at the Commission, spoke out at a forum on...
DATE: Feb 06, 2016
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