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 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: 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...
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...
After a successful inaugural video capturing a year in music at BHS, we are now embarking on our second year to create a movie that captures all our musical activities of the school year. In the near future, we hope to share the video on our school’s...
A young Bermudian businesswoman has been honoured by prestige business magazine Forbes; after launching a modern take on muesli in the UK.
Anna Mackenzie and her English business partner in food firm Cuckoo, Lucy Wright, were both picked for the Forb...
DATE: Jan 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local Business | AUTHOR: Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
Last week Young Observer met with the Student Lighthouse Team at Francis Patton Primary.
The school has adopted and implemented the Leader In Me principles since 2011. These principles support the teaching of Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Ef...
Student leaders at Francis Patton Primary School are preparing to visit two Lighthouse Schools in New Jersey. The students shared their hopes for the trip with us.
Kyzori Smith (Head Leader)
Age: 10
“I am preparing for the trip by brainstorming idea...
Bernie Sanders isn’t the first presidential candidate to oppose reparations for slavery. All the same, the Vermont senator running for the Democratic presidential nomination has been criticised for his position over the past few days. Ta-Nehisi Coate...
Michael Wynn grew up in poverty on Chicago’s South Side.
No one in his family had graduated from college and the odds were stacked against him doing so either: the dropout rate at his high school was nearly 90 per cent; only 15 of the 500 students w...
On January 12, the Year 10 GCSE PE class at BHS had the privilege of having two female sailors, Annie Lush and Sally Barkow come to talk to us about what they do and how they incorporate the things we are learning about in class to a real athlete’s l...
