Undergraduate students participating in the Bermuda Foundation For Insurance Studies (BFIS) intern programme along with PwC undergraduate interns helped the Bermuda Education Network (BEN) as part of their summer learning experience.
They created and...
Karim Creary
Karim Creary will be going into his freshman year of college in St. Lawrence University in New York. He is the recipient of the United World College scholarship which fully pays for a two-year study abroad programme. Each year there is o...
July 3, 2013
Dear Sir,
Here is a historical coincidence.
Some 60 years ago, a music teacher, one Joseph Richards struggled to teach to a class of young, black students a song called ‘The Invictus’. The song was to be sung on a special occasion which ...
DATE: Jul 04, 2013 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Three little libraries will be scattered across the Island in the upcoming weeks, thanks to Bermuda’s creative youth.
The libraries are part of the Design Springboard Programme, developed by The Bermuda Education Network. It is one of three programme...
Are you ocean literate? The ocean covers 71 percent of Earth’s surface and contains a whopping 99 percent of our planet’s habitable area.
Scientists also estimate the ocean is home to more than 50 percent of Earth’s plant and animal species. Perhaps ...
A Sandys teen has raised $1,000 in aid of her school — with a little help from her mother.
Aspiro Cannonier, 13, took it upon herself to help Sandys Secondary Middle School after it emerged from PTA meetings that money would be welcome for basic ever...
DATE: Jul 03, 2013 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Former Bermuda teacher Derek Tully has met with US politicians in an effort to improve middle school education in the US.
Dr Tully, a Bermudian who worked in the Island’s public education system for 40 years, now works with the Association for Middle...
ACE Foundation has announced the 2013 Robert Clements/ACE Scholarship and ACE/Bermuda College Education Award recipients.
JayLynn Hines is the 2013 Robert Clements/ACE Scholar while Eden Richardson is the 2013 ACE/Bermuda College Education Award reci...
DATE: Jul 02, 2013 | CATEGORY: International Business |
Steps to success
Are you familiar with this story… about the woodcutter, trying to cut down a tree?
He’s sawing away, sweat pouring off him.
An onlooker asks, “What are you doing?”
“Can’t you see, I’m sawing down this tree,” he replies.
“You look e...
A hospitality programme offered at ten of Bermuda’s schools over the past academic year has been given high marks by principals, the Bermuda Hospitality Institute has announced.
The four-week classes on Bermuda tourism and etiquette furnished young s...
