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Education Ministry Invites Diaspora Volunteers For Extra Lessons Programme
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean, is inviting retired educators in the Jamaican diaspora to volunteer their services to the Ministry’s extra lessons programme. Dr. Mclean, who was addressing the ‘Let’s Connect with...
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Education Minister Commends Student For Teaching Others During Pandemic
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...
PHOTO: Opening of Mona Heights Primary School Parking Lot
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 Minister Commends Mico For Pivoting Teacher Training To Digital Space
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...
Gov’t Levering Technology To Improve Student Achievement
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...
Primary-Level National Assessments Postponed
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...
CXC Analysing COVID-19 Impact On Exam Candidates
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”....