Teachers were congratulated, and the media castigated, at a ceremony honouring World Teacher’s Day.
Commending the Cambridge exam results announced this week for public schools students, Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) President Keisha Douglas told t...
DATE: Oct 06, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Educators are not happy that this newspaper described the disagreement over what constitutes a passing grade in GCSE exams as a “row”. So be it. The fact is that this is a deadly serious issue which needs to be settled.
Quite simply, you cannot have...
“We’re trying to incorporate a new sense of community throughout the school,” stated Rachael Waldron, the 2011-2012 Head Girl of Saltus Grammar School. “As a team [of head and deputy head prefects] we work to evoke a sense of Saltus Pride. We find th...
A former office manager charged with a string of sex attacks on an employee agreed he “hand-selected” the much younger man for the job and took him under his wing.
Mr Y told Magistrates’ Court that throughout his life he had helped individuals who ne...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Court | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
A row has broken out over what constitutes a pass for the IGCSE exams taken by Bermuda secondary school students.
Educators evaluating IGCSE results for Bermuda’s public schools have said the more rigorous C grade is the internationally accepted mea...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A teacher locked in a legal battle with Government over alleged bullying by a special school principal is to appeal an arbitrator’s decision in the case.
Claudia DeSilva has filed grievances against Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy head Dena Butterfie...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
Bermuda High School for Girls and Warwick Academy have announced their 2011 International Baccalaureate Diploma results.
Full diploma pass rates of 76 and 72 percent respectively, were recorded at the schools.
Meanwhile, Saltus Grammar School announ...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
Former United Bermuda Party deputy chairman David Sullivan is to run as an Independent candidate in the Devonshire South Central by-election because he says the party system is “broken and in dire need of repair”.
Mr Sullivan has declared his candida...
October 1, 2011
Dear Sir,
With reference to our massive debt, please consider this. The Government of the day has given away many Government services for free, but what is free for one, inevitably costs others in the long run. Employees, building...
DATE: Oct 05, 2011 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
Eight secondary schools will earn $30,000 each when their students team up with local charities again under the ‘Dollars for Hours’ project led by PartnerRe Limited.
‘Dollars For Hours: Youth and Community in Partnership’ will distribute a total of ...
