NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Comprehensive sex education that includes discussion of birth control may help reduce teen pregnancies, while abstinence-only programmes seem to fall short, the results of a US survey suggest.
Using data from a 2002 nation...
A lobby group pushing for educational reform has called upon parents to unite against a proposed teachers' strike.
Responding to news that the 900-strong Bermuda Union of Teachers (BUT) will walk out in three weeks if staff shortages are not addresse...
CHICAGO (AP) – The largest-ever study of the long-term consequences of premature birth finds that children born early have higher death rates in childhood and are more likely to be childless in adulthood.
Experts called the research significant becau...
Bermuda Union of Teachers will today issue a 21-day strike notice after a teachers shortage has grown so severe some classes have been going unsupervised.
Last night, general secretary Mike Charles said the action was the only way to attract the atte...
DATE: Mar 27, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Tim Smith
Senators have welcomed several Government initiatives to get youngsters off the starting blocks into more outdoor and sporting activities.
Junior Minister of Sport Senator Wayne Caines presented the plans as he outlined the Department of Youth and Sp...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – "Unintentional overdoses remain the most common cause of emergency visits for adverse drug events in children one to four years old," warns Dr. Daniel Budnitz, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Over a...
A new organisation set up to represent parents seeking an improved public education system has issued its first statement — criticising the overseas consultant brought in by Government to implement change.
Bermuda Educational Parents' Association (BE...
DATE: Mar 26, 2008 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Sam Strangeways
This is an opinion piece submitted by Myron Piper, chairman and founder of the Bermuda Educational Parents Association on education reform in the public schools system.
"All students must be taught the same things" Bermuda Sun editorial February 29, ...
Class not race is what divides our public and private sector students, according to UBP Senator Charles Swan.
Speaking on the Education budget in the Senate, Mr. Swan said more needed to be done to bridge the gap between the two systems.
One thing th...
Tourists want to explore
March 14, 2008
Dear Sir,
When did nature become so undesirable? Saturday I'm out shopping and I bump into one of Bermuda's very successful developers. He's talking about where he thinks the next big hotel should go – along So...
