Mathematics teachers will gather at Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College (SSTC) on Wednesday (November 23) to strategise on how to improve passes in the subject among secondary-level students. Lecturer and Head of the Mathematics Department at the college, Konnor Peters, told JIS News that the ‘Sharp Mathematics 2022’ conference is expected to attract more than 200 teachers from western parishes and...

Members of the Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ) 2022 graduating class, at the exercise held on November 6 at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus.

A long-serving educator is expressing full confidence in the Jamaican education system to produce high achievers in the classroom and to tangibly address the welfare of teachers. According to Accounts teacher in the Business Department at the Jonathan Grant High School in Spanish Town, Sonia Lyons-Gayle, who was recently awarded for 35 years’ service at the institution, she has experienced...

Thirty-two employees of the Ministry of Education and Youth were, on Thursday (November 3), honoured for just over 873 collective years of dedicated service to the education sector, during a retirement awards banquet at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, who spoke during the function, said the occasion was a remarkable achievement, not only...

Increasing the number of students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education has been deemed a national imperative by the Ministry of Education and Youth. “This is out of a recognition of the urgent need to increase the level of innovation and critical thinking required for future careers, and economic advancement in Jamaica,” said Portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams....

Jamaica Library Service (JLS) Region Four Director, Marvetta Stewart-Richards, says the agency’s facilities have been retooled and repositioned to offer online services as the entity adapts to the shift towards a technologically driven society. “So, for those persons who can’t find the bus fare or the time to visit a library, once you are a library member, you can access...

Recent graduate from the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Alexia Hibbert, displays her Bachelor of Science Degree with Honours certificate while standing beside the crab cooking station in Kingston where her mother, Makeisha “Munchie” Walker, works. She now holds a major in Political Leadership, Strategy and Management and a minor in Political Science. Ms. Hibbert visited her mother...