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...

Jamaican schools will continue to benefit from professional and academic support provided by Cuban teachers, following the signing of an agreement between the countries on Wednesday (May 26) to extend the bilateral cooperation in education. The signing ceremony was held at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s National Heroes Circle offices in Kingston. The primary areas of instruction covered...

To boost the confidence of students sitting the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Ability Test, today (May 26), Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, visited two primary schools in her St. Andrew Eastern constituency to give a pep talk. The two schools were New Providence Primary and Hope Valley Experimental Schools. At New Providence Primary, Mrs. Williams told...

As Prime Minister Andrew Holness continues distribution of tablets across the island, he is encouraging parents and guardians to properly supervise the online activities of their children. Prime Minister Holness says, as children are now increasingly accessing the tools that enable them to go online, there is the potential for them to be exposed to unsavoury information that is not...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has commended the staff at the Salt Spring Primary and Infant School, in St. James, for making the effort to ensure that students remain engaged with their lessons. “It is quite obvious that the Principal takes this as a very serious duty on her part. I can see that the teachers take their...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says that the Government is looking to provide technology devices to more than 500,000 students in the education system. “The total number of learners in the education system is approximately 590,000 and of that number, approximately 52,000 are tertiary students and 33,000 are enrolled in private schools,” he noted. “So the core target...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, says that almost 150,000 technology devices will be in the hands of needy students islandwide, through various programmes and initiatives, by the end of the 2021/22 school year. She was addressing a meeting for the Kiwanis Club of Eastern St. Andrew, which was held virtually on Tuesday (May 18). The Ministry...