Educators are hoping to rid the Island of young couch potatoes by increasing sports activities in public schools.
The Ministries of Education and Youth and Sport have been meeting to discuss ways of enhancing the opportunities for physical education ...
They call her Bermuda's Oprah. Her husband says she is an icon, and the Queen has honoured her for her extensive community service, yet Gina Spence Farmer remains as humble as if she were a complete unknown.
The reason, she says, is because she regar...
The Education Ministry yesterday unveiled a raft of new measures to massively raise the standard of public schooling - along with new objectives for test scores.
Just days after the latest TerraNova test results showed senior school students were way...
Changes to the public secondary school system that mean students are now doing an additional year have been running very smoothly since the start of the new term, parents and staff have claimed.
Principal of CedarBridge Academy Kalmar Richards said s...
Bermuda's public education system is failing both gifted students and those that need special attention, according to concerned parents and teachers who attended a public forum last night.
And the claims were backed up by student representatives sitt...
The Education Ministry was last night urged to take immediate steps to ensure Bermuda's senior school students did not continue to lag way behind their peers in the United States in the three basic academic skills.
Shadow Education Minister Tim Smith...
Last week's announcement that Teen Services may be forced to shut down its education service due to lack of funding demonstrates an alarming lack of foresight.
It is easy to overwork the notion of "if Government can spend such and such on this comple...
Shocked by Saturday night's violence during the Martonmere Cup soccer match at BAA Field, Sports Minister Randy Horton yesterday hit out at those involved in the fracas.
“This sort of behaviour will not be tolerated under any circumstances, at any le...
DATE: Oct 01, 2002 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Colin Thompson
High profile speakers such as US Congresswoman Diane Watson, attorney Cherie Booth, novelist Sara Peretsky and journalist Carol Jenkins have already drawn roughly 100 participants to the upcoming Women in Public Life conference.
With an ambitious sla...
September 17 was the 215th anniversary of the signing of that most remarkable document, the American Constitution. There wasn't a great deal of fuss made of it. I don't fully understand why. Is there a more important document in existence, one more r...
