NCST S.T.E.M. Summer Camp starts next week Barbados Today01/08/20200314 views The annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S.T.E.M.) Summer Camp, hosted by the National Council for Science and Technology (NCST), will take place from Tuesday, August 4, to Friday, August… Read more
Charles F Broome Memorial Primary holds virtual graduation ceremony Anesta Henry25/07/20201658 views The 2020 graduates at Charles F Broome Memorial Primary bade farewell in a virtual graduation ceremony on Friday. They were urged to accept the changes that will come their way… Read more
Blackman & Gollop back as school Barbados Today15/07/20200407 views Blackman & Gollop Primary School on Tuesday ended its role as a coronavirus isolation centre when the Ministry of Health formally returned a sanitised and spruced-up campus to the Ministry… Read more
More to be done, says lecturer Barbados Today15/07/20200493 views Government is being warned that the success of its widely publicised 12-month remote visa programme could be placed in jeopardy if steps are not taken to improve the country’s telecommunications… Read more
English ‘easy, Maths ‘harder’, say relieved 11-Plusers Anesta Henry15/07/20200558 views It’s all over, as thousands of 11-year-olds who sat the delayed common entrance examination in masks exhaled in collective relief at the end of the four-hour English and Mathematics test.… Read more
‘All set for 11-Plus’ Anesta Henry14/07/20200260 views The nation’s class four primary school pupils head out on Tuesday to sit the common entrance examination – the Eleven Plus – with assurances from Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw… Read more
UWI among list of top 100 in World University rankings Barbados Today05/07/20200398 views The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Saturday said it is now among a list of the world’s top 100 Universities in new rankings released by Times Higher Education… Read more
BUT sides with BSTU on protocol changes Barbados Today27/06/20200258 views The Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) has raised its voice in support of Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) objections to “unilateral” changes to the protocols governing how classes are conducted.… Read more
Bradshaw firm on school masks policy Barbados Today25/06/20201263 views Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw remained unmoved Wednesday by objections to a policy that allows primary and secondary school students to remove their masks while in class. She declared that… Read more
Change takes teachers off guard Randy Bennett24/06/20203247 views Teachers are not in agreement with being in classrooms with students without masks. Less than a week after the Ministry of Education announced that students would be allowed to remove… Read more