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This past week has been very disheartening and unfortunate for the senior management team of the Department of Education. How is it that the first dedicated Bermudian male Commissioner of Education was subjected to a breakdown in a routine human reso...

Freddie Evans is said to be “confused, upset and angry” at having received no confirmation as to whether he can return to work as Commissioner of Education. This is according to his lawyer Mark Diel of Marshall Diel & Myers, who told The Royal Gazet...

A summer life skills programme for young people with mental health problems aims to raise awareness and create positive change. A total of eight students took part in the second instalment of the teen life skills programme, which was designed to tea...

A disgraced former Bermuda teacher has again made headlines in Britain. The Daily Mail and The Sun published stories yesterday about Matthew McGowan’s marriage this summer to Aimee Bento, one of his former pupils at Warwick Academy. Mr McGowan, who t...

A bevy of educators came to the Pickled Debaters and asked the great thinkers, how can education be improved. And the wise men answered thusly: The education system is like a large freight train running downhill. To change its course, one must apply ...

MURIEL WADE-SMITH PhD has been fighting the fight for education and for recognition of her craft for the past several decades. In recent times, she has taken to writing to politicians to be given what she believes to be her fair dues, as well as fell...

Civil Service bureaucrats have made an about-turn over the “firing” of the island’s Commissioner of Education. Now Freddie Evans, who was told on Monday he was dumped from the job, could be in for a payout in damages from the Government. A letter fro...

The dangers of social media will be among the topics up for discussion at a parent expo planned for January. The event, featuring workshops and presentations by principals from public and private schools, was initially scheduled for this weekend but ...

Education minister Diallo Rabain highlighted Bermudian success stories as he tabled the annual report for the National Training Board. Mr Rabain told the House of Assembly four individuals, who received support and funding from the NTB, were examples...

The departure of Freddie Evans from the post of education commissioner took a new twist yesterday. A series of performance appraisals on Dr Evans show a sharp drop in his evaluations in the month before his exit was announced. Mark Diel, of law firm ...

A man banned from teaching in Britain because of serious misconduct with a 16-year-old schoolgirl applied for a job at Saltus Grammar School this year. Matthew McGowan approached Saltus after complaints were raised about his relationship with a pupil...

America’s elite colleges are more selective than ever before. They also remain disproportionately populated by the wealthy — in part because many qualified students from poor backgrounds do not even apply. The good news is that there are proven strat...