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The e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited (e-LJam), the portfolio agency of the Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, is accelerating efforts to standardize instructional materials and bring teaching technologies to the classrooms, in a bid to upgrade the quality of education in high schools. A Ministry Paper outlining the agency's performance was tabled in the House of Representatives last week...

The Central Information Technology Office (CITO) will be spending $27 million this financial year to develop a number of projects including the National Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Strategy and E-government Plan. The information is contained in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives recently by Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Phillip Paulwell. The National ICT...

The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), in association with the University of Technology (UTech), launched the island's first solar-powered golf cart at the university's Old Hope Road campus, today (June 13). A brainchild of six final year mechanical engineering students, supervised by Dr. Noel Brown, a lecturer at the School of Engineering, UTech, the project began in 2005 when the...

The pilot for the introduction of an Integrated Early Childhood Curriculum for children up to five years old will be implemented beginning September 2007. "For the first time, we would have a curriculum which has content, scope and sequence from birth to 36 months and from three years to five years old," said Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry...

The Ministry of Education and Youth is in the process of implementing a national screening, referral and early intervention programme for children from birth to eight years old, who are at risk in the education system. In her contribution to the 2007/08 Sectoral Debate in the House yesterday (June 12), Minister Maxine Henry Wilson pointed out that the programme was...

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), during the 2007/08 fiscal year, will continue to formulate, promote and implement standards for goods and services through a review of the Standards Act, the Processed Food Act and the Weights and Measures Act. As contained in a Ministry Paper, which was tabled in the House of Representatives last week by Industry, Technology, Energy...

The Ministry of Education and Youth will be providing 600 new school spaces for the new academic year under its Start-A-School Programme, to accommodate students in Grades 7 and 10. "These grades were selected to facilitate the students sitting the Grade Six Achievement Test and Grade Nine Achievement Test," Minister Maxine Henry Wilson said during her contribution to the 2007/08...

Commissioner of Police, Lucius Thomas has said that the police's investigation into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach, Bob Woolmer, was thorough and professional. "This was a thoroughly professional investigation where nothing was left to chance or assumption," Commissioner Thomas stated at a press conference held yesterday (June 12) at the Police Officers' Club in Kingston. "We have always...

The government's e-Learning Jamaica Project is on target, with the necessary equipment and network infrastructure being put in place to enhance the teaching/learning environment. As contained in a Ministry Paper tabled in the House of Representatives recently by Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Phillip Paulwell, the Ministry has commenced implementation of four of five components targeted in the...

The Grade One Inventory, which provides a profile of a child's learning style and abilities on entering first grade, will now be conducted in October. Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson, in her contribution to the 2007/08 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives yesterday (June 12), explained that the decision to move the assessment from September to...

Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson has raised concern about the low performance of boys in this year's Grade Four Literacy Test. Mrs. Henry Wilson, in her contribution to the 2007 /08 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representative yesterday (June 12), said that there was a 23 per cent gap in the performance of girls over the...

A total of 507 learners from four parishes sat diagnostic tests in reading/comprehension and mathematics during the implementation phase of the High School Equivalency Programme in 2006/07. This was announced by the Minister of Education and Youth, Maxine Henry Wilson, in her contribution to the 2007/08 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives yesterday (June 12). "Of this number, 118...