An unused office in Washington cost the Government of Bermuda more than $175,000 for only ten months last year.
Liberty Place, on the United States capital’s 7th Street, was maintained even though it was closed in 2017.
A spokeswoman said the Governm...
DATE: Jan 07, 2019 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Fiona McWhirter
Mother Teresa once said “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples”.
This is a mantra that Meghan Parry and Angela Faries live by.
The two women have helped to make a small impact in developing ...
A former head teacher at Saltus Grammar School has died in England.
Roy Haygarth, who was 87, led Saltus between 1969 and 1979 — a crucial time in its history. Henry Ziegler, a Saltus alumnus who was the first head of the senior year created by Mr Ha...
DATE: Jan 05, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
A date for the first new style report cards for public school- children is still up in the air, the education minister admitted yesterday.
Diallo Rabain said that discussions would begin “this week” with Kalmar Richards, the Commissioner of Education...
A long time ago, or should I say “once upon a time”, while there was yet darkness in the lands, simultaneously there existed the brightness of a hope for a better day.
The 1940s saw a band of newly educated persons pushing in the areas of education, ...
The recent industrial action reflects our school system’s breaking point — and brings to the fore the incontrovertible truth that the social needs of students have overtaken its capacity to cope.
Studies have proven that classroom environments, incl...
Teachers were offered an apology yesterday for a failure of support and communication over the introduction of a new standards-based grading system in public schools.
Kalmar Richards, the education commissioner, admitted there had been “insufficient ...
DATE: Jan 03, 2019 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Owain Johnston-Barnes
The following was written for Amnesty International about Warwick Academy’s Human Rights Project on its fifth anniversary as part of Amnesty International’s human rights-friendly schools project, and publicised worldwide on its website
Warwick Acad...
The Bermuda Education Network will hold a Chinese new year celebration at its Outstanding Teacher Awards ceremony next month.
Becky Ausenda, the executive director of the BEN, said: “Following the success of our previous events, we are again pulling ...
After a turbulent year for Bermuda’s public schools, what sort of resolutions can help to restore hope and deliver change to public education in 2019?
One bad habit we need to give up is changing leaders, and we should probably try to cut back on Ban...
