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Students of Somersfield Academy are hosting a Zumba party to raise funds for the Reading Clinic.
The event, scheduled to take place at the Somersfield Academy Gym on Saturday, will include a ZumbAtomic session for children aged three to 12, and an ad...
DATE: Jan 19, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Today is a very big day for Warwick Academy one of two of the oldest schools in the western hemisphere.
For the school’s first female principal Maggie McCorkell, now three years into her historic appointment, it is an even more gratifying occasion.
A...
DATE: Jan 18, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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A delegation of Bermuda students will travel to Cape Town, South Africa, this week to compete in the World Schools Debate Championship.
The annual event, which will begin today, brings together students from across the world to compete and interact.
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DATE: Jan 17, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Bermuda Industrial Union has called an urgent meeting for today for all BIU members who work for the Department of Education.
Union organiser Louis Somner has called the session at 11.30am at BIU headquarters in Hamilton to discuss various concer...
DATE: Jan 16, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Budget
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The Association of School Principals has hit out again at the Ministry of Education’s decision to parachute an executive principal into Prospect Primary School amid concerns about student performance.
The organisation issued a fresh statement yesterd...
DATE: Jan 14, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Government’s controversial appointment of an executive principal to boost performance at Prospect Primary School has been officially endorsed for the first time by the school’s executive.
Following talks with the Ministry of Education, the Prospect P...
DATE: Jan 12, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Road safety campaigners believe a decrease in fatal crashes shows their message is finally getting across to motorists.
Nine people were killed on Bermuda’s roads in 2011, the lowest figure since 2004, indicating a grim trend which has claimed 127 li...
DATE: Jan 11, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Michelle Scott Outerbridge is the new chairman of the Human Rights Commission.
Ms Outerbridge, formerly the deputy chairman, was chairman of race group CURE until it dissolved in 2010. She replaces lawyer Shade Subair who led the HRC for 12 months; l...
DATE: Jan 11, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
A schoolboy charged with possessing cannabis on school property was given a conditional discharge when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court.
Bryan McIntosh, 17, of Hillsdale, Smith’s, pleaded guilty in December to having 0.7g of the drug at the Berkeley...
DATE: Jan 11, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The placement of a Temporary Executive Principal at Prospect Primary School, effective today, has been defended by the Ministry of Education as an intervention at a “low performing school”.
However, parents are said to be disappointed at the sudden a...
DATE: Jan 09, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Education
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
