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Heron Bay Primary continued its 90th anniversary celebrations on Saturday with a Family Fun Day.
The event, which ran from noon until 4pm, drew around 100 people to the Southampton School, where they enjoyed food, games, bouncy castles and music.
Pri...
DATE: Jan 30, 2016
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Parents are being thrown “into a quandary” as they scramble to hit the deadline for school registration armed with no detailed knowledge of a report that could spell future school closure and consolidation. This is the view of Bermuda Union of Teache...
DATE: Jan 29, 2016
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Education
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Sarah Lagan
A representative from the Savannah College of Art & Design is visiting Bermuda College this afternoon to meet prospective students.
Alexandra Jones, assistant director of international admissions at the Atlanta-based arts university, will be in Halle...
DATE: Jan 29, 2016
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The Shadow Minister of Education & Training has expressed her “grave concern” at the current state of Bermuda’s schools.
In a joint statement from the Progressive Labour Party and the Bermuda Union of Teachers, Lovitta Foggo said that the School Reo...
DATE: Jan 29, 2016
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A new training initiative offering post secondary education for investment and financial services was formally launched this week at a ceremony at City Hall.
The RCA Bermuda Compliance Certification Programme (RBCC), the result of a partnership betwe...
DATE: Jan 28, 2016
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Owain Johnston-Barnes
Family Centre’s Homework Academy programme is aiming to attract volunteers to help students reach their academic goals.
The initiative, launched by the charity five years ago, offers extra assistance to Dellwood Middle School students and those in th...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
The way children aged 16 and 17 are dealt with in Bermuda’s criminal courts is at odds with the United Nations’ child treaty, according to a new Supreme Court ruling.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley said certain parts of the Youth Offender’s Act (YOA) 195...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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Court
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Bermuda College students learnt about everything from the biology of the black grouper to using the Bernoulli’s principle to make ten-minute ice cream as part of the Corange Science Fair held this week.
The students were able to find out about the la...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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S2 students at Berkeley Institute have “soared” in their English Language IGCSEs according to the school’s principal.
Dr Phyllis Curtis-Tweed praised the 11 students, who sat the exams in November 2015, as well as their teacher Sandra Burrows.
The s...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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Sarah Lagan
Tawana Tannock, the Human Rights Commission’s newly appointed president, sees “exciting and dynamic times” ahead for human rights in Bermuda.
“Human rights have been at the forefront of Bermuda’s imagination for the last three years — it’s a great ti...
DATE: Jan 27, 2016
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell