Editing Bermuda (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of schools in Bermuda}}
The Bermuda Education Act 1996 requires that only three categories of schools can operate in the Bermuda Education system:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bermuda Education Act 1996 |url=https://www.but.bm/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Education-Act-1996.x41418.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116174237/https://www.but.bm/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Education-Act-1996.x41418.pdf |archive-date=16 January 2021 |access-date=16 November 2020 |website=Bermuda Union of Teachers}}</ref>
* An ''aided school'' has all or a part of its property vested in a body of trustees or board of governors and is partially maintained by public funding or, since 1965 and the [[desegregation]] of schools, has received a grant-in-aid out of public funds.
* A ''maintained school'' has the whole of its property belonging to the Government and is fully maintained by public funds.
* A ''private school'', not maintained by public funds and which has not, since 1965 and the desegregation of schools, received any capital grant-in-aid out of public funds. The private school sector consists of six traditional private schools, two of which are religious schools, and the remaining four are secular with one of these being a single-gender school and another a [[Montessori method|Montessori school]]. Also, within the private sector there are a number of home schools, which must be registered with the government and receive minimal government regulation. The only boys' school opened its doors to girls in the 1990s, and in 1996, one of the aided schools became a private school.

Prior to 1950, the Bermuda school system was racially segregated.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historical Context of Education in Bermuda: Perspectives of a Participant Observer |url=https://www.college.bm/images/documents/bcj/Vol_1/Historical_Context_of_Education_in_Bermuda.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412095822/https://www.college.bm/images/documents/bcj/Vol_1/Historical_Context_of_Education_in_Bermuda.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2021 |access-date=12 April 2021}}</ref> When the desegregation of schools was enacted in 1965, two of the formerly maintained "white" schools and both single-sex schools opted to become private schools. The rest became part of the public school system and were either aided or maintained.

There are 38 schools in the Bermuda Public School System, including 10 preschools, 18 primary schools, 5 middle schools, 2 senior schools ([[The Berkeley Institute]] and [[Cedarbridge Academy]]), 1 school for students with physical and cognitive challenges, and 1 for students with behavioural problems.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home – Bermuda Schools |url=http://schools.moed.bm/default.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190509155435/http://schools.moed.bm/default.aspx |archive-date=9 May 2019 |access-date=9 May 2019 |website=schools.moed.bm}}</ref> There is one aided primary school, two aided middle schools, and one aided senior school. Since 2010, Portuguese has been taught as an optional foreign language in the Bermudian school system.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gozney |first=Richard H.T. |date=6 November 2009 |title=2009 Throne Speech |work=BDA Sun Bermuda Sun Online |url=http://bermudasun.bm/Content/NEWS/News/Article/2009-Throne-Speech/24/270/43391 |url-status=live |access-date=20 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921025633/http://bermudasun.bm/Content/NEWS/News/Article/2009-Throne-Speech/24/270/43391 |archive-date=21 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=kbsmith |date=4 July 2019 |title=Minister of Education Provides End of School Year Update |url=https://www.gov.bm/articles/minister-education-provides-end-school-year-update |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414034914/https://www.gov.bm/articles/minister-education-provides-end-school-year-update |archive-date=14 April 2021 |access-date=20 May 2020 |website=Gov.bm |language=en}}</ref>

For higher education, the [[Bermuda College]] offers various [[associate degrees]] and other certificate programmes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bermuda College |url=http://www.bercol.bm/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501101116/http://www.bercol.bm/ |archive-date=1 May 2008 |access-date=10 February 2008}}</ref> Bermuda does not have any Bachelor-level colleges or universities. Bermuda's graduates usually attend Bachelor-level universities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bermuda College Pathways to a Bachelor's Degree |url=https://www.college.bm/index.php/pathways |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222153411/https://www.college.bm/index.php/pathways |archive-date=22 February 2019 |access-date=21 February 2019 |website=Bermuda College}}</ref>

In May 2009, the Bermudian Government's application was approved to become a contributory member of the [[University of the West Indies]] (UWI). Bermuda's membership enabled Bermudian students to enter the university at an agreed-upon subsidised rate by 2010. UWI also agreed that its [[University of the West Indies Open Campus|Open Campus]] (online degree courses) would become open to Bermudian students in the future, with Bermuda becoming the 13th country to have access to the Open Campus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bermuda joins the UWI Family |url=https://sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=280 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927065753/https://sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=280 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |access-date=25 January 2020 |website=Campus News |publisher=UWI St. Augustine}}</ref> In 2010, it was announced that Bermuda would be an "associate contributing country" due to local Bermudian laws.<ref>{{Cite web |title=UWI welcomes Bermuda as a member country |url=https://sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=681 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927064509/https://sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=681 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |access-date=25 January 2020 |website=Campus News |publisher=UWI St. Augustine}}</ref>