Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says preparations are in place for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), which will commence on June 28 She noted that the Overseas Examinations Commission (OEC) has reported that the “centres have been finalised, presiding examiners have been engaged and trained and deployment schedules...

The Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that the Grade Six Ability Test component of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) was successfully administered on May 26 in collaboration with school leaders. She said that all the scripts are now being checked and graded.  She noted that the release date and the weighting of the scores are...

The National Association of Deans of Discipline (NADD) will host the final of four virtual Behaviour Expositions on Friday, June 11. The exposition seeks to engage more than 5,000 high-school students from across Jamaica in an empowerment session, under the theme ‘Transforming Behaviour through Environment, Empowerment of our Youth in Spite of COVID-19’. President of NADD, Samuel Smalling, said the...

 

Minister of Education Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, has hailed 14-year-old Kelvin Peart of Queenhythe, Discovery Bay, St. Ann, for taking on the selfless task of tutoring students in his community who have been impacted by the closure of schools, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kelvin, a grade-eight student of Ferncourt High School in Claremont, St. Ann, transformed an...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams (fourth left), cuts ribbon to officially open the newly built parking lot at the Mona Heights Primary School in Kingston, recently. Sharing the moment (from left) are Acting Regional Director, Region 1, Dasmine Kennedy; Mona Heights Primary students, Alex Hepburn Jr., and Diandra-Michellè Schrouter; Acting Principal, Mona Heights Primary, Alex Hepburn; and...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, is commending The Mico University College for partnering with the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) to reorganise the college’s practicum training for final-year students to enable them to operate in the online learning environment. She said that the collaboration is a welcome response to the “new normal” created by the coronavirus (COVID-19), which...