Young Bermudians are being encouraged to follow a career in surveying, with a $10,000 bursary on offer for the 2016-17 academic year.
The Government grant is open to citizens aged 40 and under, who are in an undergraduate or master’s degree programme...
The principal at Francis Patton Primary School has warned against ranking schools based on the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint exam results.
Garita Coddington, whose school was rated “OK” with an average of just over 2.6 out of 6 between 2012 and 2015, ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Something which I think is important for my children to learn early, and which my wife is a great example of (you can tell her I said that), is giving maximum effort.
The Baha’i quote “ … make ye a mighty effort, and choose for yourselves a noble go...
As she wrote these words, “A great book is a person, a person whose essence, whose being you yearn to smother in,” cast in the middle of an essay, Afnan Farooqui, did not anticipate an invitation to a university.
While searching online for prospectiv...
Why can so few people seem to save any money? The number of people scraping along from paycheque to paycheque is astonishing; surveys routinely find that somewhere between a third and half of all Americans don’t have the savings to fund ordinary emer...
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...
