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A total of $7500 has been awarded to two students by Hamilton Parish Council.
Sarai Hines won a Members’ Scholarship worth $5000, while Jashun Bean was awarded a bursary of $2500.
Ms Hines is studying fine arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Art...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
A Bermuda private school has notched up its best results ever in English school exams.
Pupils at the Bermuda High School for Girls recorded a 100 per cent pass rate in the 2013/14 round of the exams — formerly known as O Levels.
A total of 21 per cen...
DATE: Aug 25, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Determined Clearwater Middle School students are celebrating their hard work, after giving up holiday time to tackle the IGCSE maths exams years earlier than their year Senior 2 counterparts.
Seventeen pupils at the East End School sat the exams in M...
DATE: Aug 23, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A new Commissioner of Education will not be in place in time for the beginning of the new school year.
The post has remained vacant since April when Dr Edmond Heatley resigned from the position. Dr Lou Matthews will continue as Acting Commissioner as...
DATE: Aug 22, 2014
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Education
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Junior Minister for Tourism and Transport Nalton Brangman has been appointed to a top job at the new Morgans’ Point development.
And last night Opposition leader Marc Bean said he was “shocked” that Sen Brangman had kept his junior Ministerial portfo...
DATE: Aug 22, 2014
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Politics
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Under-fire Saltus Grammar School head Claire Charlemagne is urging disgruntled parents to contact the school with their concerns.
And the recently-installed head has also been given the backing of her Parent Teacher’s Association and Board of Trustee...
DATE: Aug 22, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The Department of Health has moved to allay fears that its free fluoride supplement programme for children could be axed.
Two sources, neither of whom would be named, told The Royal Gazette that the cost of the scheme came up at a recent meeting of h...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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CATEGORY:
Health
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Teachers are set to take industrial action next month.
Staff have signalled they will take industrial action on Tuesday, September 2 — six days before children are due to return to classrooms.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Education said the di...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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AUTHOR:
Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Bermuda’s former Education Commissioner Edmond Heatley has missed out on the schools superintendent post in New Orleans.
Dr Heatley was one of two finalists for the US job, but the Orleans Parish Schools Board failed to approve either of them.
Instea...
DATE: Aug 21, 2014
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Education
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The first phase of work to restore and save one of Bermuda’s oldest school buildings has begun.
Moonray Manor dates back to the 1840s and had fallen into disrepair over the last two decades.
But trustees of the Moonray Manor Trust, David Saul and Fra...
DATE: Aug 20, 2014
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