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Almost half the people who took part in a consultation survey disagree with the plan to introduce parish primary schools. A tally of the entries in the Parish Primary School Consultation Submissions report revealed that out of a total of 108 parents,...

Lack of detail about how the Government plans to fund and implement parish primary schools in Bermuda was a common theme raised during public consultation. The Government released three reports on the consultation including the the Parish Primary Sch...

The views of about 1,000 members of the community were released by the government in the Parish Primary School Consultation Submissions report. Comments were made in favour of and against the government’s Parish Primary School Plan. The vast majorit...

Members of the community hoping to save their schools put forward several alternatives to closure during the consultation on parish primary schools. Elliot Primary School in Devonshire was the only school originally slated for closure under the Paris...

“Grave concerns” were raised about students with special needs being separated from mainstream pupils, the consultation report has revealed. Anonymous submissions were recently made public in the Parish Primary School Decisions report. “There is grav...

The Government has prioritised public service, community and commercial use for the buildings that will be left after eight public primary schools close. Alternative future uses for the sites were detailed in the Parish Primary School Decisions repo...

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...