The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is partnering with Flow, Digicel and ReadyTV to facilitate Internet access and broadband services to enable teaching and learning utilising the G-Suite learning management system. “This means that all principals, teachers, students and parents can now be engaged in virtual/online teaching and learning activities without the need to utilise their personal Internet data,”...

The National Baptist Basic School on Greenwich Street in Kingston, today (September 29), received well-needed equipment and items, initiated by the three First Heritage Co-Operative Credit Union (FHC)  Civil Servants of the Year for 2019, in collaboration with partners. They included a new desktop computer, printer and educational items, and $50,000 from Sagicor for the purchase of school desks and...

Teachers who received devices under the Government’s ‘Tablets for Teachers’ programme are benefiting from technical support through e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam). As of September, more than 20,000 public-sector teachers were equipped with a personal tablet as part of the terms of the Heads of Agreement signed between the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) and the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) in 2018. The...

E-Learning Jamaica Limited (eLJam) has reported that the distribution of more than 20,000 tablets to the nation’s teachers under the Government’s Tablets for Teachers Programme is complete. “As of September, we have completed the primary distribution of tablets to teachers. We commenced rollout a couple of months ago and the objective was to provide 25,000 tablets to the teachers of...

 

Registrar and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Dr. Wayne Wesley, says that requests by candidates for queries and reviews should be submitted to the examination body by October 23, 2020. He said queries regarding absent and ungraded results are free, but there is a fee for reviews. Dr. Wesley was speaking at a virtual press...

Registrar of the Independent Schools Unit, Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Euphemia Burke-Robinson, says a homeschool policy is currently being developed and is to be reviewed by the Ministry’s legal team. She told JIS News that parents and guardians who choose to homeschool their children must take full responsibility to ensure that their children are educated in a...