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...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that the Government is levering the use of technology in the education system in order to improve student achievement. She said that a technology-aided system enables students to learn “faster and deeper”, better preparing them to participate in the workforce. “It will be a blended environment; we believe that will...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has postponed the sitting of all the remaining national assessments at the primary level until the latter half of the Christmas Term of the upcoming 2021/2022 academic year. In a bulletin issued by the Ministry, it was stated that the decision was taken after a series of consultations with key stakeholders and consultant...

Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Registrar and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dr. Wayne Wesley, says the entity will give further consideration to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic’s impact on student sitting external exams, during the grading process. He noted that CXC will take into account “the likely psycho-social impact [of the pandemic] on students’ performance to ensure that they are not disenfranchised”....

The Government’s ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child’ initiative received a further boost with the acquisition of 12 computer tablets courtesy of Bresheh Limited. The devices, along with protective cases, were handed over to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information on Friday (March 28) by Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Bresheh Limited, Randy McLaren. The presentation took place...