Students from CedarBridge Academy have gone on a college tour to help them to decide where they want to further their studies, and help them gain the knowledge to select a major.
• Bathsheba Jones, S4
From March 23 until April 4, I had the pleasure...
ConnecTech, Bermuda’s first technology incubator, encouraging collaboration and innovation, held its grand opening this week, featuring a guest appearance from the island’s leading footballer, Nahki Wells.
The co-working space held a public open hous...
In a “disturbing” trend, rising numbers of young students from needy homes are coming to the classroom with their lunchboxes empty.
Children at ten schools already get help with breafast each morning, courtesy of the Coalition for the Protection of C...
DATE: Jun 01, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Any discussion about the problems in American education — and what is to blame for these problems — will likely include one or all of the usual suspects: inadequate and unequal funding, a lack of resources, underpaid and overworked teachers, over-tes...
Basketball pro Mykal Glasgow is to take his sporting talents abroad this autumn, having committed to play for Thomas College in Maine.
The sports prodigy, an honours student at the Berkeley Institute, plans to study accounting.
Three times a member o...
DATE: Jun 01, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Jonathan Bell
Students at Somersfield Academy have been tinkering with robots, raising awareness about charities and advocating for good habits as part of a community project to encourage young people to care.
Service and action are key components of the school’s ...
DATE: Jun 01, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education | AUTHOR: Sarah Lagan
Researchers have found links between leaders’ narcissism, worse reviews of their leadership behaviour and a surprising third factor: how much money their families had when they were growing up.
The study, published online by the Academy of Management...
The pandemic of obesity is a well-known phenomenon affecting the world population, but more so the Western Hemisphere, with Americans being among the heaviest people in the world.
This pandemic has occurred since the 1980s with increasing frequency,...
DATE: May 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Opinion Writer | AUTHOR: Joe Yammine, MD
Some people wonder how they will fill their days once they have retired. Not Leon Simmons. The former accountant has always loved photography.
“It’s not unusual for me to pull the car over suddenly because I saw something interesting to photograph,”...
DATE: May 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Home & Away | AUTHOR: Jessie Moniz Hardy
Dear Sir,
I just wish to comment on the passing of Colin Benbow.
Mr Benbow taught me history at Warwick Academy, and a finer history teacher you could not find.
He had the knack of making some of the most boring historical figures come alive.
He i...
DATE: May 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor |
