Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says more than 16,000 primary- and secondary-school students are set to benefit from intervention programmes. Making her contribution to the 2021/2022 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on April 28, she said the programmes are geared at boosting achievements of the students, building their human and social capital to transform...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says the Government will not ignore the 440 schools rated as being in danger zones for landslide and flooding in Jamaica. During her contribution to the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (April 28), the Minister said that the World Bank and the University of Technology (UTech) did...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says Cabinet has granted approval for the development of a National Higher-Education Policy, in a bid to increase quality assurance and monitoring of higher-education institutions. The Minister pointed out that the new Policy will “govern the higher-education sector”. Mrs. Williams provided details during her contribution to the Sectoral Debate in the...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that Jamaica boasts a high percentage of qualified teachers in the public education system. “We have… trained university graduates, trained college graduates and trained instructors,” she said, while making her contribution to the 2021/22 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on Wednesday (April 28). She said that these highly qualified...

The draft Jamaica Teaching Council Bill, which seeks to establish a system of licensing teachers to improve the status of the teaching profession, is now with the Attorney General’s Office. This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams during her contribution to the 2021/22 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on April 28. “Its...

A World Bank study shows that Jamaica’s expenditure on education, as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) and budget, compares favourably with the ratio for several other regional countries and is within the international norm. Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, who made the disclosure, noted that Government expenditure, on a per-student basis, “is comparable to the...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, is calling on records and information management (RIM) practitioners to recommend systems that will maintain the integrity of the records in their custody from creation to disposition. Minister Williams gave the charge as she addressed the opening of the Jamaica Archives and Records Department’s second virtual RIM symposium on Wednesday (April 28)....