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A new partnership between Future Leaders Bermuda and a global boarding school will give Bermudian middle and high school students the chance to travel abroad in the summer to study leadership and entrepreneurship on an annual basis. Future Leaders B...

Berkeley Institute pupils have been given counselling after the death of 15-year-old schoolmate Kiara Paiva, it was revealed yesterday. The Berkeley Board of Governors added the school’s flag was flown at half-mast in the wake of the sudden death of ...

If the Minister of Education had listened to and fully engaged with our principals, teachers, parents and the Bermuda Union of Teachers in the first instance, the challenges we are seeing in education could have been avoided. All those stakeholders,...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Along with my classmates, I spent a week on the Endeavour programme at Dockyard. We did lots of theory and practical lessons during the week, all related to sailing. During our classroom theory lessons we actually built a small boat using clay an...

Marsden First United Methodist Church in Smith’s has contributed over $1,000 worth of school supplies to Harrington Sound Primary School. The collection supports the Support Public Schools initiative led by lawyer Juliana Snelling. Funds were raised...