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The Opposition One Bermuda Alliance has accused Government of poor planning after it closed schools at short notice. Public school pupils were due to go back to the classroom today for the start of the new academic year. But on Tuesday Diallo Rabain,...

Employers have been asked to be considerate to staff whose children will return to remote learning this week because of the increase in Covid-19 cases. Diallo Rabain, the Minister of Education, said: “We want parents to know that we recognise that th...

Public schools will hold remote lessons when children go back to school on Thursday in the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases. The ruling was made after a meeting of the Education Emergency Measures Committee (EEMC) today. Diallo Rabain, the education...

Public primary school pupils got to benefit from an intensive educational summer camp thanks to a collaboration between two organisations. The Bermuda Education Network, for the second year, teamed up with the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institut...

A bid to increase the use of libraries was launched this month. The Bermuda National Library is to run Library Card Sign Up Month throughout September, with the chance of winning a Kindle Fire. The library will collaborate with The Friends of the Lib...

Campaigners have not given up hope of saving an historic school threatened with closure in an overhaul of public education. Phil Perinchief, a former PLP Attorney-General who attended the West End Primary School, said there was “talk of forming a gr...

Saltus Middle and Senior schools will not welcome students back to campus this week after more than 40 staff had potential Covid-19 exposure. However the school’s Cavendish and Upper Primary departments will open as scheduled. In a notice sent out ye...

The Government is to tighten Covid-19 safety rules in public schools – just 24 hours after it claimed that stricter regulations were not needed. The announcement came after one public school – the Bermuda Institute – revealed tonight that it will be ...

Bermuda’s Rhodes scholar traditionally gets a sendoff in the US before they begin their studies. But the pandemic meant a home ceremony for Kenza Wilks, 22, who headed yesterday for Rhodes House at the University of Oxford. Christie Hunter-Arscott, t...

A Ministry of Education staff member working towards a Masters in Public Policy and Management was named the winner of the 2021 Bermuda Government Bursary Award. Taneesha Ottley, who studies at the University of York, said her goal was to become a se...

A veteran teacher who sued the Government after she was passed over for the role of Commissioner of Education will have to pay half of the Government’s legal costs. Gina Tucker argued in court that she was not given a fair chance at the job, which wa...