The 2016/17 Scholarship Season is here!
It is that time of the year where students should create a “Scholarship File” and apply for money that is sitting there to help them continue their journey of further education.
www.bermudascholarships.com is...
Government and private sector cash — along with laws — are needed to help provide a “striving society” for Bermudians and avoid a stark future state, a prominent island social worker says.
Charities figurehead Elaine Butterfield drew a comparison be...
Jasmeen Codrington-Edmead was doing well in English. That did not stop her mother, Zarinah, from signing the 13-year-old up for tutoring.
Substitute teacher Tamika Todd set up Arete Academy to help students like Jasmeen fulfil their potential.
The p...
Education standards expert Paul Wagstaff, who was the front-runner for the role of Commissioner of Education, has declined the position, this newspaper understands.
Mr Wagstaff, who has a history in school improvement and advisory services in Britain...
DATE: Feb 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
The situation here is, in some ways, reminiscent of a condition that existed in New York right after 9/11.”
So said visiting clinician Kenneth Hardy regarding the treatment of racial trauma in Bermuda.
Dr Hardy, a professor of family therapy at Phi...
The economic phenomenon of the Donald Trump vision for America will certainly provide the screenplay to test the economic theories that have challenged the world for more than a century. The Trump cabinet is an unabashed conservative group of billion...
DATE: Feb 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Khalid Wasi
TEDx Bermuda, the showcase for “ideas worth sharing”, is back on March 25 for its seventh instalment, with ten speakers from disciplines ranging from marine science to virtual reality coming to the island.
John Narraway, chairman of the event, hailed...
DATE: Feb 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Michael Dunkley dropped in one some of the island’s students this week to help them learn about fitness and a healthy lifestyle as part of the Premier’s Youth Fitness Programme, on offer throughout public schools.
Mr Dunkley was accompanied yesterday...
Racism has overtaken crime as one of the biggest issues facing Bermuda, according to a poll commissioned by The Royal Gazette.
A surge of voters named racism as their top concern in the Global Research survey this month: 16 per cent, up from 7 per ce...
Students at TN Tatem Middle School went back to their classrooms yesterday after a long break while the school was treated for mould contamination, with the latest inspections showing “significantly lowered and acceptable levels of mould” in the area...
DATE: Feb 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
