In preparation for the 2021/2022 academic year, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, through the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), will offer capacity building opportunities for school personnel during the 2021 summer period. This was disclosed in a bulletin issued by the Ministry recently. Under the theme ‘Recover Smarter’, the Ministry aims to support and bolster the readiness of teachers...

The National Council on Education (NCE) welcomes the announcement made by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, that schools will reopen for face-to-face learning in September of this year. The need for face-to-face learning supports the findings of the NCE studies, which identified major learning loss among students as a result of the challenges that they experienced with online...

More than 30 students living in St. Catherine South Central now have tablets for their online classes, thanks to Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, and his Positive Jamaica Foundation. Mr. Holness visited Harmony Hall Gospel Church on Corletts Road on June 18, and met with students from McCauley Primary, Homestead Primary and Infant, and Horizon Park Primary Schools,...

The Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (Amendment, Validation and Indemnity) Act, 2021 was passed in the House of Representatives on June 22. The Bill seeks to expressly empower the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ) to grant and confer academic awards and distinctions and to rescind such awards and distinctions where the Council may have good and sufficient...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has donated 30 tablets to primary-school students in St. Catherine West Central, through his Positive Jamaica Foundation. Speaking at the handover ceremony in Pedro on June 18, where he also donated a printer to the Garden Hill Primary and Infant School, Mr. Holness said he has a “personal commitment” to education. He noted...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, says by the end of the school year, more than 125,000 tablets would have been issued to students under the Government’s Tablets in Schools Programme. Mrs. Williams made the disclosure while addressing a handover ceremony where 21 tablets were presented to the Ferris Primary School in Westmoreland, on June 17. She outlined that in...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, participates in a meditation exercise during a yoga session on June 13, at the High Commission of India in Kingston. The session is one of a series of activities being hosted by the High Commission of India to commemorate International Day of Yoga, to be celebrated on June 21. The exercise aims...

St. Catherine High School, the alma mater of Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is expected to have a new performing arts centre by the end of this year. Ground was officially broken for the centre at a ceremony on Friday (June 18), in which the Prime Minister participated. Supreme Ventures Limited donated the first $5 million towards the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the new schools the Government intends to construct will focus on teaching children how to function well in the fourth industrial revolution with technology and collaborative learning. “Most of our schools, they are not built and designed for the kind of teaching and learning that is required to ensure that our population...