More than 100 members of the Southern Area of The Links, Incorporated, out of the United States, will serve two days at Watford Hill Primary and Infant School in Hanover. This will be done during their annual Leadership Conference, to be held at the Hyatt Ziva and Zilara Hotel in Montego Bay, from October 26 to 30. During the conference,...

Students are being encouraged to consider their actions before reacting in rage or anger and to pursue alternative ways to settle disputes.   Education and Youth Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, made the appeal today (October 21), while speaking at the Memorial Service for slain Kingston Technical High School student, Michion Campbell, at the Pentecostal Tabernacle on Wildman Street, in Kingston.  Sixteen-year-old...

The Ministry of Education and Youth has launched an initiative aimed at ending violence in schools. Dubbed ‘Just Medz It’, the yearlong campaign seeks to shift the culture of violent confrontations and responses among children and students and equip them with conflict-resolution strategies that are peaceful and healthy. It was launched on Wednesday (October 19) at Wolmer’s Boys’ School, National...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (centre), Chief Education Officer (Acting), Dr. Kasan Troupe (fourth right) and Permanent Secretary (Acting) in the Ministry, Maureen Dwyer (fourth left), are engaged in discussion with education stakeholders, during a meeting with United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence Against Children, Dr. Najat Maalla M’Jid (third right). The meeting...

Member of the Jamaica Character Education Task Force and Founding Chief Executive Officer of Ontario Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat, Dr. Avis Glaze (left) greets Principal of Rousseau Primary School, Viviene Anderson (right), during her visit to the institution in Kingston on Tuesday, (October 18). Looking on is National Coordinator for Character Education, Simone Foster.

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), emphasises a point in discussion with Founding Chief Executive Officer for the Ontario Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat and former Ontario Education Commissioner in Canada, Dr. Avis Glaze, during a courtesy call at the Ministry's offices, in Kingston, on Tuesday (October 18). Dr. Glaze is also a member of the Jamaica Character...

Students, parents and education sector stakeholders were sensitised on how to respond to bullying and cybercrimes during an anti-bullying workshop held on Thursday (October 13). The forum was the first in a series of virtual workshops being hosted by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), aimed at strengthening stakeholders’ capacity to alleviate the negative effects of bullying on...