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Education Minister Grant Gibbons praised the dedication and inspiring influence of educators as he met a group of new teachers.
He spoke out as he opened the Department of Education’s New Teacher Orientation in St David’s.
The two-day programme for 3...
DATE: Aug 29, 2014
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Students at Warwick Academy have achieved high grades in their IGCSE qualifications.
The school has reported a 99.7 percent pass rate in the exams, with principal Maggie McCorkell noting that there were some “exceptional individual successes”, includ...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014
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A quadriplegic who has spent a nightmare 40 years “incarcerated” on a hospital ward for elderly dementia patients could be moving to a new home.
Health chiefs have finally agreed to allow Luke Caines to move out of King Edward VII Memorial Hospital’s...
DATE: Aug 27, 2014
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Belco has donated $165,000 toward education for local students who showed themselves to be “gifted, dedicated and ready to make a real contribution to the Bermuda community”.
Belco president and CEO Walter Higgins commended the 2014-2015 recipients o...
DATE: Aug 26, 2014
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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
