The National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC) is hosting a series of high priority information sessions to assist parents and guardians with preparations for their children’s return to school for the 2020/21 academic year, which starts in September.    The sessions, which are being facilitated via the Zoom digital platform, will enable facilitators and participants to explore the schooling modalities and blended...

The HEART/NSTA Trust and the Overseas Examinations Commission (OEC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the Commission to administer the National Council on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET) examinations up to November 2022. The signing ceremony, held on Thursday (July 23), at the OEC’s offices at 6 Manhattan Road, Kingston, formalised a partnership forged between the...

The National Library of Jamaica (NLJ) is hosting virtual history workshops for secondary-school students. Students preparing for their School-Based Assessments (SBAs) as part of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) can benefit from these workshops. Individuals or schools wishing to attend or have customised sessions for students can contact the NLJ via email...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has launched the Education Transformation Commission 2020, which will be tasked with reviewing and assessing the country’s public education system and making recommendations. Speaking at the virtual launch at the Office of the Prime Minister on July 22, Mr. Holness emphasised that it is time to take decisive action to improve the education...

Chief Executive Officer of e-Learning Jamaica, Keith Smith, says teachers in St. Thomas have expressed their satisfaction with the tablet computers they received recently under the Government’s ‘Tablet for Teachers’ programme. “We have completed distribution to teachers in St. Thomas, and the feedback received was tremendously positive,” Mr. Smith told JIS News. He noted that since schools have had to...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is advising school administrators that the cost of registration packages at the secondary level should be no more than $5,000. In addition, there is no cost for registration at the primary level. The policy directive on registration fees is in keeping with the Ministry’s mandate of ensuring that the cost to parents remains...

National Security Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (second left), and Member of Parliament for South West St. Andrew, Dr. Angela Brown Burke (left), look at a bottle of cleaning solution, which was among sanitisation products donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to Cockburn Gardens Primary and Junior High School for its summer programme. The handover took...