Warwick Academy held its first Valedictory Service to say farewell to the class of 2016.
The service is intended to allow the class to bridge the gap from students to alumni and to cross the Old Quad — something that they are not usually allowed to d...
While teaching US history at a public charter high school, Julian Hipkins III noticed that students tended to assume that “race” was as old as mankind. “Almost like it was natural, a given,” as he put it.
So, using specialised lessons, Hipkins helped...
Bermuda College lecturer Edwin ME Smith was growing increasingly concerned.
Fewer and fewer residents seemed able to identify Bermuda’s artists and their work. Whenever he asked the question — of friends, of his students — he got a handful of names i...
Glenda Edwards has always been passionate about working with children.
After a career in child protection spanning more than three decades, the mother of three now facilitates training sessions with charity Saving Children and Revealing Secrets.
Mrs...
At the outset of his political career he posed, and then proceeded to answer to his own satisfaction, what remains among the most vexing questions in Bermudian public life. In his “Am I Being Used?” speech delivered to a City Hall audience during the...
In 1974, physicist Richard Feynman derided education research as a form of pseudoscience:
“I found pseudoscientific things that even more people believe, such as that we have some knowledge of how to educate. There are big schools of reading methods ...
Imagine you’re at the beach, stuck in a life preserver that’s so big and ugly that people can’t help but stare.
Even worse, it only lets your legs get wet; the rest of you bobs like a cork.
That’s the experience for many people with physical disabi...
The parent of a special needs student has criticised the Ministry of Education’s potentially “catastrophic” move to reassign his teacher elsewhere without notice.
Shlomo Yeshurun warned that the abrupt decision to remove Khadijah Ming from Dame Marjo...
Two primary schools in the East End have recorded the island’s best average grades throughout the past four years, according to results from the Cambridge International Examinations.
St George’s Preparatory was the only school to average in the “very...
DATE: Apr 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Do you know someone whose courage, selflessness and hard work have changed Bermuda for the better?
If so, you can submit them for consideration in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List — with honouree activities including voluntary work, arts, health, sp...
